a predecessor in my chair at harvard , daniel bell , said we are a divided society in which the economy and technology become increasingly organized on the principles of functional rationality meritocratic , technocratic and so on while alongside the industrial superstructure exists a culture that becomes increasingly apocalyptic , anti-intellectual and sensuous , that seeks only the new and experimental and has rejected all traditional bourgeois notions of rationalism and sobriety , a culture in which instinct is all , in which impulse and pleasure alone are real and life-affirming .