The Sickness Of The Individual Is Ultimately

In The Realm Of Culture, The New Totalitarianism Manifests Itself Precisely In A Harmonizing Pluralism, Where The Most Contradictory Works And Truths Peacefully Coexist In Indifference.

The Range Of Socially Permissible And Desirable Satisfaction Is Greatly Enlarged, But Through This Satisfaction, The Pleasure Principle Is Reduced Deprived Of The Claims Which Are Irreconcilable With The Established Society. Pleasure, Thus Adjusted, Generates Submission.

Free Election Of Masters Does Not Abolish The Masters Or The Slaves. Free Choice Among A Wide Variety Of Goods And Services Does Not Signify Freedom If These Goods And Services Sustain Social Controls Over A Life Of Toil And Fear – That Is, If They Sustain Alienation. And The Spontaneous Reproduction Of Superimposed Needs By The Individual Does Not Establish Autonomy; It Only Testifies To The Efficacy Of The Controls.

The Functional Language Is A Radically Anti-historical Language: Operational Rationality Has Little Room And Little Use For Historical Reason.

Society ... Can Afford To Grant More Than Before Because Its Interests Have Become The Innermost Drives Of Its Citizens.