The System of Triviality by Alain Deneault

"Power has fallen into the hands of the mediocre, and their empire extends to all aspects of life: the economy, science, law, and politics. In their hard work and rapid reproduction, they are so excessive that in the not-too-distant future they will eliminate all dissent, suppress all sense of risk, and tear every original political idea to shreds. In this book, Donneau offers a penetrating—sometimes scathing—analysis of this age of mediocrity, which leads to the sterility of the human mind by spreading a sharp tendency toward cultural and political apathy. Mediocrity is a social system that leads to a constant threat of falling into the middle."