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Watched it. Not bad at all.
His point about the division of tasks pulverizing responsibility reminds me of the Marxist concept of alienation and has a basis in psychology. But that's not necessarily how it always goes. Legally there still is responsibility, if a dam bursts the engineers working on it can be arrested if their project is found to be faulty. In some chains of production, though workers only do one step of production they can be proud of the final output. And the division of tasks is not merely an economic or technical relationship but also a social one where contacts are made and individuals come to rely on one another, whereas under autarky no such contacts and relationships would have been built.

Attempts to express individual will (the case of Parisians leaving their city on their free time) ending up all the same across masses, urbanites in developed societies feeling despair and loneliness and "tunnel vision" happening when the achievement of a technical solution to the detriment of everything else is the goal are facts.

At the beginning he speaks of the industrial West conquering traditional societies and says it should never have intruded upon their sacred beliefs. No judgement of wheter those beliefs are right is made, those beliefs make them comfortable and shouldn't be touched. Yet near the end he makes judgements and touches on the beliefs and behaviors (optimism) that allow individuals in industrial societies to sleep comfortably at night. Though there's more to that, he seems to believe in the "noble savage" archetype but isn't just a postmodern cultural relativist, he does imply that the beliefs of traditional societies are more truthful and that's what makes them untouchable.

He describes art as something that can bring spiritual fulfillment. And yet art can only exist within a material medium and can only be accessed with a certain level of material prosperity, both for having an education and for paying to be able to witness the artistic item. In a society with no printing press and 90% illiteracy this spiritual fulfillment is unavailable for most.

The psychological and societal results of industrialization are described with some materialistic determinism/fatalism, that the way things are is the one and only possible result of having our technology. On the other hand near the end he also speaks of living with technology and under its effects but being conscious of it. I'd say technology impacts society but this isn't a crude Marxist model where the material infrastructure commands the societal superstructure, it is possible to change the way we face technology and use it in a more constructive, tool-like form.
He also speaks of using small groups of people. Curiously enough the classical age of mass movements is coming to an end and limited circles are increasing in importance:
https://jacobitemag.com/2017/12/05/a-priesthood-of-programmers/