![]() ![]() Herbert Marcuse would probably say that, if you want to figure out the answer to these questions, maybe it’d be useful to put yourself in the shoes of a member of an overtly totalitarian society just to see what’s similar. How would you know that you were living in it? What sort of clues would you see around you if you did? Would you even notice them if they were there? Or would you frame who you are so much in relation to that totalitarian system that nothing would ever seem out of the ordinary to you? So, let’s assume for a second that Marcuse’s right, that in a country where many of the citizens see freedom as the fundamental thing the United States embodies, in reality the population’s actually living under an advanced version of monopoly capitalism that’s sort of metastasized and taken control of everything from art to politics to government, with all this amounting to what’s probably the most clever, insidious totalitarian system in history. ![]() Today’s episode is the rest on Marcuse’s work Eros and Civilization. ![]()
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