"On the other side, transgression beyond the closed analytical structure is incorrect or propaganda, although the means of enforcing the truth and the degree of punishment are very different. In this universe of public discourse, speech moves in synonyms and tautologies, actually, it never moves toward the qualitative difference. The analytic structure insulates the governing nouns from the negation which their concept in the synthetic proposition involves [...] In this sphere, to identify things with their function is to identify them with their function in their society, and if this identification affects the animate things, men, it may be a highly restrictive and even destructive procedure: although it may have the merit of certainty, it may also succeed in arresting thought."
Herbert Marcuse, "Language and Technological Society" (Beacon Press), p. 69.
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