On the one hand, the bourgeoisie established a huge industrial production system by relying on science and technology, which promoted the rapid development of society; On the other hand, science, technology and reason have been turned into tools of egoism and colonial plunder.
As a result, domestic crises and contradictions have intensified, and the imbalance in the division of the world market by capitalist countries has deepened, eventually leading to the outbreak of world war.
In the two world wars, more than 70 million lives were taken away by modern scientific and technological weapons.
Moreover, the relationship between science and technology and war has fallen into a vicious development, which has pushed science and technology and rationality, western society and westerners to a more one-sided, extreme and deformed predicament.
Man becomes a slave of reason and machine: science and technology are beneficial to man, and reason is one of the essential characteristics of man's superiority over animals. However, social history and reality have turned science and technology and rationality into opposites of human beings: rationality has become a pure instrumental rationality or scientific and technological rationality, and has become a royal tool for some people to plunder others; Humanism and human rights are also subject to instrumental rationality, and people have fallen from the status of the subject of rationality and the central object of humanitarian services to the slaves of instrumental rationality and machines.
This makes people have to re-examine the rationality of science and technology with suspicion.
Political and economic contradictions in capitalist society have intensified and people's living conditions have deteriorated. With the development of western society, management and production are highly mechanized and scientific, social production and management have become a larger, rigorous and ruthless machine system, and people have become a part of this huge machine. People's life, consumption and ideas have been completely commercialized and dominated by commercial advertisements and mass media. People lose their subjectivity and selectivity and become "one-sided people"
After Nietzsche shouted "God is dead", westerners had to sigh "People are dead"!
Capitalism is destroying nature more and more seriously, threatening people's natural homes.
With the development of industry, on the one hand, people are driven by interests to exploit nature in large quantities, which makes many non-renewable resources almost exhausted; On the other hand, large-scale industry also produces a large number of harmful substances and gases, which are discharged into nature, further worsening the natural environment and people's living environment.
Nature is the home of human beings and the "inorganic body" of human beings (in Marxism).
The deterioration of the environment directly threatens human survival itself.
This has aroused people's strong dissatisfaction and reflection.
Source: blog when the mountains are full of red leaves