>When the farthest corner of the globe has been conquered
technologically and can be exploited economically; when any incident you like, in any place you like, at any time you like, becomes
accessible as fast as you like; when you can simultaneously "experience" an assassination attempt against a king in France and a symphony concert in Tokyo; when time is nothing but speed, instantaneity, and simultaneity, and time as history has vanished from all
Being of all peoples; when a boxer counts as the great man of a
people; when the tallies of millions at mass meetings are a triumph;
then, yes then, there still looms like a specter over all this uproar the
question: what for? — where to? — and what then?

He might be right but foundationally his philosophy is just another reaction against the demystification and rationalisation of the world. You can see this given the fact he was essentially a renegade Catholic who in his youth was training to become a Jesuit, clearly his religious inclinations lead him to attempting to rediscover the mystical in philosophy.