Abstract
Whenever in the next centuryaserioushistorian worth his saltsitsdownto take the measure of our day and age, his verdict will spare us hardly anycompliments. The overt bureaucratisationcoupled with the smashing of natural hierarchicalorder of existence has significantly increased technocratic encroachment upon our communitarian lives.The difference between the social and the political has more or less vanished.Today,the balance that had been so crucial in yesteryears amongst various sectors of organised life hasevaporated.As Heidegger warned at the beginning of the last century,the calculative mind has decisively superseded the meditative one. The dominant theme of the age perceives human beings more as motel dwellers than as ethno-cultural species wedded to their respective soil.