In his book The Waning of the Middle Ages, Huizinga demonstrated that humans think according to the times, and if one follows his thesis, it can be argued that these are the last decades of the minds that were formed by a mechanical view of the world: structuralism in social and literary studies, behaviorism in schools and education in general, and a machine type of approach to organizational and medical issues. If by the late Middle Ages, the mystical view of the Cosmos was ending, presently, the modernist factorial and comparmentalized industrial view of life is on its way out. In the process, we will not longer form groups to deal with our issues, but will follow our individual instincts, and, even, each of us, on our own, will try to kill or care for the other.
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