This Society Turns Everything It Touches Into

The Judgment That Human Life Is Worth Living, Or Rather Can And Ought To Be Made Worth Living, ... Underlies All Intellectual Effort; It Is The A Priori Of Social Theory, And Its Rejection (which Is Perfectly Logical) Rejects Theory Itself.

The Music Of The Soul Is Also The Music Of Salesmanship. Exchange Value, Not Truth Value Counts. On It Centers The Rationality Of The Status Quo, And All Alien Rationality Is Bent To It.

The Abbreviations (e.g. Nato, Un, Ussr - E.w.) Denote That And Only That Which Is Institutionalized In Such A Way That The Transcending Connotation Is Cut Off. The Meaning Is Fixed, Doctored, Loaded. Once It Has Become An Official Vocable, Constantly Repeated In General Usage, "sanctioned" By The Intellectuals, It Has Lost All Cognitive Value And Serves Merely For Recognition Of An Unquestionable Fact.

Freed From The Sublimated Form Which Was The Very Token Of Its Irreconcilable Dreams - A Form Which Is The Style, The Language In Which The Story Is Told - Sexuality Turns Into A Vehicle For The Bestsellers Of Oppression. ... This Society Turns Everything It Touches Into A Potential Source Of Progress And Of Exploitation, Of Drudgery And Satisfaction, Of Freedom And Of Oppression. Sexuality Is No Exception.

The Soul Contains Few Secrets And Longings Which Cannot Be Sensibly Discussed, Analyzed, And Polled. Solitude, The Very Condition Which Sustained The Individual Against And Beyond His Society, Has Become Technically Impossible. Logical And Linguistic Analysis Demonstrate That The Old Metaphysical Problems Are Illusory Problems; The Quest For The "meaning" Of Things Can Be Reformulated As The Quest For The Meaning Of Words, And The Established Universe Of Discourse And Behavior Can Provide Perfectly Adequate Criteria For The Answer.