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The Problem Is Alarming

The Problem Is Alarming

Lagos Bello, Luis Felipe

Paperback

Philosophy

ISBN10: 6630062124
ISBN13: 9786630062120
Publisher: Our Knowledge Publishing
Published: Sep 23 2026
Pages: 84
Weight: 0.27
Height: 0.20 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
*The Problem Is Scary* is a philosophical reflection on the silent crisis that human beings are experiencing in the age of immediacy. Going beyond an analysis of technology, Luis Felipe Lagos Bello examines how social acceleration, information overload, and instrumental rationality have weakened humanity's capacity for critical self-reflection. The book argues that the true danger lies not in technological progress, but in the gradual abandonment of the search for meaning. Through dialogue with authors such as Husserl, Heidegger, Habermas, Fromm, Frankl, and Bauman, the book shows that freedom does not consist in doing whatever one desires, but in preserving the capacity for reflection in the face of forces that seek to automate consciousness. Contemporary society produces individuals who are increasingly well-adapted but less willing to question the foundations of their existence. Consciousness thus emerges as the last bastion of resistance. Only those who dare to think, doubt, and understand critically can escape the reduction of their lives to a mere mechanism of consumption, productivity, and adaptation.

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