It seems that we are witnessing a fundamental transformation of humanity: Our subjectivity, our intimacy, and our relationship with the external world have fundamentally changed in recent years. At the provisional end of this process stands a new identity. It is no longer the economic situation that matters, but rather the belonging to a specific cultural ideal: We are expected to be progressive, liberal, cosmopolitan, democratic, and tolerant. In contrast, the new barbarian of our time threatens—those who are unmutated, left behind, or stuck in the past. But what kind of world is this, where democracy is praised while the demos is scorned? Guillaume Paoli traverses the long night of metamorphosis and polemically documents its societal and cultural manifestations in the media, postmodern philosophy, and historical revisionism.