I found this book very difficult to read. Individual ideas made sense, and some of them I would like to explore more deeply, but once the discussion began, I became lost in the language and logic of social theory, which is not a field I have any previous knowledge of. So although individual ideas made sense, when I got to the end of a chapter I had no idea what I'd read. Which is really too bad because I think the author had some useful insights into modern Western society ... I'm just not sure what they are!