Aggressively anti-intellectual. And.. tortured? It reads like a literary version of [<i>The Scream</i>](<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Scream" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Scream</a> ), where it aggressively rejects reality as a monster, grasping at straws in the process in a manner that suggests severe psychological disturbance.<p>The author seems to be begging for a simpler world -- to go back to an ancient golden age, before things got so complex (before "<i>The Spectacle</i>"). Before science, before economics, before industrialization, before mass-education, before the human knowledge-pool got bigger, and even before people recorded years (the author makes a big point of how only seasons, and not years, should be observed).