20世纪对于美国甚至对于整个世界而言是一个充满了悖论、变化与危机的时代,经济萧条、世界大战、种族屠杀、生化危机、环境恶劣、核武器等等似乎都预示着人类正在走向一条末日之途,人类的欲望将科技理性发展到极致,使理性呈现到人类文明发展的前台,同时又遮蔽了人类的理性。欲望使人类、社会发展成为机器,世界即将成为人类欲望机器 The twentieth century was an era full of paradoxes, changes and crises for the United States and even for the entire world. Depression, world war, genocide, biochemical crisis, hostile environment, nuclear weapons, etc. all seem to indicate that mankind is heading for a doomsday The desire of mankind will develop the rationality of science and technology to the limit so that the rationality will be presented to the foreground of the development of human civilization and at the same time the human rationality will be obscured. Desire to make mankind, social development into a machine, the world will soon become the human desire machine