Modernity’s withdrawn security guarantee drives a desperate search for simplifying promises

Evidence

Perhaps modern life started, as Sigmund Freud suggested, from surrendering a large slice of individual freedom in exchange for collectively endorsed security. In its present-day phase, though, the offer of social guarantees of individual security has been withdrawn or is no longer trusted. This state of affairs is a recipe for a life of insecurity and anguish; and also for the desperate search for a genuine or putative, but trustworthy-looking, promise of a great simplification of a world too complex to walk safely through. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 434

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes the vault’s treatment of fascism and scapegoating as simplifications; connects to the Frankfurt School chapters on Nazism as a deculturing promise of order.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 434