@okayultra Will leave @schakalsynthetc @ContentOfMedia @St_Rev @topynate out of replies to make space for content…
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@okayultra I haven’t actually read Marcuse, so whatever I say is likely to be nonsense. However… in the 1950s right & left totalitarianisms1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@okayultra were both immediate, vast threats, for which a coherent oppositional analysis was needed. Classical liberalism looked inadequate.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@okayultra Freud’s _Civ&Soc_ gave some genuine insight into totalitarianism (although mostly wrong in retrospect).1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@okayultra Freud “proved” that society must make us miserable through internalized oppression.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@okayultra Marcuse just turned that around: we can stop being miserable if we get rid of social oppression.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@okayultra In retrospect that was insane, but given the ideas available as resources at the time, it made sense. Was worth exploring/trying.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@okayultra The problem is that half a century after we *did* try it, and conclusively found that it was wrong, people still advocate this >1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@okayultra but in a “atomized” form, i.e. decontextualized, inconsistently, incompletely, incoherently; no understanding of underlying logic1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
@okayultra Does that make sense, or am I out to lunch?
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