/lit/ - Literature

>ruin western society in your path

I write "condemned" because I feel that we're still there. Even though we progress in some fields, we seem to never get over their core ideas.
All of the 20th century were dominated by these three saints. (Add Darwin for science of evolution and that's it.)
Every thinker and philosopher were absolutely engulfed by their world views, and social sciences were absolutely riddled with their ideas. No one thought to themselves if these ideas were true or not, if they were valid ones for humanity and the West to pursue in the first place.
Our elites just went there, without looking back, without "thinking" in retrospect. They assumed these people had meaning, spoke truthfully, in short, that they were right and that we had to keep following their footsteps in order to find a new reality.
But what if the only thing we were watching and reading from these three guys, were merely the shadows in plato's cave? What if they were wrong and were a product of the nihilism that has habited the West going back to the French Revolution? What if they only struggled with reality? With their own selves? What was the point of it all? Sure, that got us many many brilliant essays, theoritical and abstract thinkings, and many good stuff on social interaction, human brain etc. but where does it all go from now? Are we condemned to pursue their "human liberation" objective?