The Tyranny of Wellbeing

Guillaume Faye critiques the modern obsession with material consumption, arguing that it leads to the erosion of cultural diversity, the rise of economic totalitarianism, and the reduction of individuals and societies to mere components in a globalized, homogenized system.

Read the essay here.

Tags:

Dr. Guillaume Faye

Guillaume Faye, born in 1949, obtained a Ph.D. in Political Science from the Institut d'etudes politiques de Paris. He was a principal organizer of the French New Right group GRECE in the 1970s and 80s, while also pursuing a career in journalism for magazines such as Figaro and Paris-Match. After leaving GRECE in 1986, Faye worked as a broadcaster for Skyrock radio and France 2 TV's Telematin program. He returned to political philosophy in 1998, publishing Archeofuturism, and went on to produce several challenging books. Faye passed away in 2019.