Brutality loss of human identity

The belief that humanity is steadily evolving towards what is better has persisted and still prevails. This conviction has cast a shadow over human thought, especially when Enlightenment philosophers of the eighteenth century hastened to break away from metaphysical, supernatural, and mystical thinking on one hand, and abstract materialistic scientific thought on the other. Humanity has become, particularly since the Industrial Revolution in the nineteenth century, confident in itself after gaining control over both the realm and matter, and even venturing into space exploration. Despite this development and hope for material control over natural resources and the achievement of more rights through establishing citizenship without racial discrimination, human brutality has worsened—not only against their fellow humans, regardless of their origins and backgrounds, but also against all other living beings, causing severe damage to the natural environment and the ecosystem they inhabit. This brutality has exceeded all bounds, not only due to successive wars, ethnic cleansing that took on a genocidal character, and racism—whose outward appearance has somewhat diminished but which still threatens to return more violently and barbarically—but also surpassing the brutality of the dinosaur era, which led to their extinction. This book, "Barbarism," raises many vital and current questions, despite its pessimistic tone, which might make us see ourselves as the modern dinosaurs heading toward extinction unconsciously, believing that digitization is leading us toward further development. It is also a book worthy of prompting us to think more deeply about our current reality, as the world faces a serious pandemic whose end we still do not know, especially if no cure is found.