To impose Reason upon an entire society is a paradoxical and scandalous idea [...]Just as this society tends to reduce and even absorb opposition (the qualitative difference!) in the realm of politics and higher culture, so it does in the instinctual sphere. The result is the atrophy of the mental organs for grasping the contradictions and the alternatives [...]
In the one remaining dimension of technological rationality, the Happy Consciousness comes to prevail.
It reflects the belief that the real is rational, and that the established system, in spite of everything, delivers the goods.
Herbert Marcuse
The one-dimensional man
In the one remaining dimension of technological rationality, the Happy Consciousness comes to prevail.
It reflects the belief that the real is rational, and that the established system, in spite of everything, delivers the goods.
Herbert Marcuse
The one-dimensional man
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