Our Intellectual Desert

“Most thought-provoking for our thought-provoking times is that we are still not thinking", according top Martin Heidegger. Intellectually, and not only, we now live in a desert. The desert is a kind of void. And we indeed are today immersed in the void: the void of the Internet; more broadly, the void of the much discussed and lamented “public sphere”, first of all the medias – which by now are increasingly on the Internet, so in the virtual void as well. The article reviews the causes of such intellectual desert, focusing on the Frankfurt School.