Reviewing "Repressive Tolerance" and other works by Herbert Marcuse, the quack who became America’s most influential thinker
He explained: not only was the material condition of the worker in modern capitalism insufficiently brutal to spur him to revolution, but technological advances coupled with expanded freedoms allowed even the lowliest employee to fully integrate into the “one-dimensional society,” a consumerist hell of mostly met material needs, “pleasure,” “fun,” and “socially permissible desirable satisfaction,” all of which “weakens the rationality of protest.”
In the advanced capitalist countries, the radicalization of the working classes is counteracted by a socially engineered arrest of consciousness, and by the development and satisfaction of needs which perpetuate the servitude of the exploited. A vested interest in the existing system is thus fostered in the instinctual structure of the exploited, and the rupture with the continuum of repression a necessary precondition of liberation – does not occur.
Wait they hate Mr. Virtue Singal now?
The left's purity testing must be reaching a fever pitch.
I think they've been hating them for 5 years now. They've actually been relentlessly smearing him in every way they can.
Ever since he questioned their pieties in quite a small way.
I can understand why they hate Glenn Greenwald because Glenn actually calls out the left on various things.
The only crazy thing about Glenn is that he has Bolsonaro Derangement Syndrome.
Meanwhile Jesse Singal has towed the line on all of their most major leftist narratives. Guess it is not enough huh?
Nothing is ever enough. The existing culture is ALWAYS oppressive.
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Can't cross the Transriarchy without paying the price.
Not quite as strange as his Sam Harris Derangement Syndrome.
But of course, we all have our blind spots.
Only complete obedience will suffice.
Meanwhile Sam Harris still has massive Trump Derangement Syndrome.
What a clown world.