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Against Quotes by Herbert Marcuse
- Glorification of the 'natural' is part of the ideology which protects an unnatural society in its struggle against liberation.
- The unification of opposites which characterizes the commercial and political style is one of the many ways in which discourse and communication make themselves immune…
- The organism is thus being preconditioned for the spontaneous acceptance of what is offered. Inasmuch as the greater liberty involves a contraction rather than extension…
- The means of communication, the irresistible output of the entertainment and information industry carry with them prescribed attitudes and habits, certain intellectual and emotional reactions…
- Inasmuch as art preserves, with the promise of happiness, the memory of the goal that failed, it can enter, as a 'regulative idea,' the desperate…
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