My free translation from the German (because I do not have the English version) of something somebody once said, or rather wrote:
"Behind the technological veil, behind the political veil of democracy reality shows itself: the universal servitude, the loss of human dignity with prefabricated freedom of choice. And the power structure does not appear 'sublimated' anymore in the style of a liberalist culture, appears not even hypocritical anymore (so that it at least retains the 'formality', the husk of dignity), but brutal, in that it throws over board all claim to truth and justice."
And for the philologically inclined:
Hinter dem technologischen Schleier, hinter dem politischen Schleier der Demokratie zeigt sich die Realität: die universale Knechtschaft, der Verlust menschlicher Würde bei vorfabrizierter Wahlfreiheit. Und die Machtstruktur tritt nicht mehr 'sublimiert' auf im Stil einer liberalistischen
Kultur, nicht einmal mehr heuchlerisch (so daß sie zumindest die 'Förmlichkeiten', die Hülse von Würde, beibehielte), sondern brutal, indem sie allen Anspruch auf Wahrheit und Gerechtigkeit über Bord wirft.
at least now society in general has taken the red pill (by force?), if im allowed to use the matrix metaphor..
do we now will make the right choice? or we will continue to pretend that nothing happens?
at least now we are more awake.. as you beatifully quoted someone who were awake and conscious before anyone else does..
Did´nt follow much of Marcuse myself, but Adorno are one of my favorite philosophers, thank you for sharing :)
The whole world keeps repeating itself. You should read Ecclesiastes! "What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun."
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My free translation from the German (because I do not have the English version) of something somebody once said, or rather wrote:
"Behind the technological veil, behind the political veil of democracy reality shows itself: the universal servitude, the loss of human dignity with prefabricated freedom of choice. And the power structure does not appear 'sublimated' anymore in the style of a liberalist culture, appears not even hypocritical anymore (so that it at least retains the 'formality', the husk of dignity), but brutal, in that it throws over board all claim to truth and justice."
And for the philologically inclined:
(Herbert Marcuse: Konterrevolution & Revolte, Frankfurt ²1973, p.22.)
at least now society in general has taken the red pill (by force?), if im allowed to use the matrix metaphor..
do we now will make the right choice? or we will continue to pretend that nothing happens? at least now we are more awake.. as you beatifully quoted someone who were awake and conscious before anyone else does..
Did´nt follow much of Marcuse myself, but Adorno are one of my favorite philosophers, thank you for sharing :)
No, this echochamber has been forced to take the red pill. "Society in general" most definitely has not, if you take 'general' to mean 'majority'.
Remarkable to what degree that applies to our time. Some things seem to be so timeless...
The whole world keeps repeating itself. You should read Ecclesiastes! "What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun."