From: Dehede011@aol.com
Date: Tue Dec 24 2002 - 11:32:51 MST
In a message dated 12/24/2002 10:38:41 AM Central Standard Time,
scerir@libero.it writes: "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/
Guys,
Maybe you can figure out what that means but I am lost. <G>
Ron h.
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