From: scerir (scerir@libero.it)
Date: Tue Dec 24 2002 - 09:42:43 MST
> What were the sixties about?
"The closed operational universe of advanced industrial civilisation
with its terrifying harmony of freedom and oppression,
productivity and destruction, growth and regression is pre-designed
in this idea of Reason as a specific historical project.
The technological and the pre-technological stages share certain
basic concepts of man and nature which express the continuity
of the Western tradition. Within this continuum, different modes of thought
clash with each other; they belong to different ways of apprehending,
organising, changing society and nature. The stabilising tendencies
conflict with the subversive elements of Reason, the power of positive
with that of negative thinking, until the achievements of advanced
industrial
civilisation lead to the triumph of the one-dimensional reality
over all contradiction."
- Herbert Marcuse, 'One-Dimensional Man', 1964
http://www.marcuse.org/herbert/
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