Arguably, the critique has been rather constant, at least since Orwell. In the age of reason, the danger is the loss of reason itself, as it is used for the Procrustean purposes of power.
Also - the Robert Redford character in Three Days of the Condor: "Community. Jeez, you guys are kind to yourselves." The pragmatic approach preserves an existing functional network as a good in itself. The question of whether they, in themselves, are good tends not to arise.