"Obscenity is a moral concept in the verbal arsenal of the Establishment [...] obscene is not the ritual of the Hippies but the declaration of a high dignitary of the Church that war is necessary for peace. Linguistic therapy - that is, the effort to free words (and thereby concepts) from the all but total distortion of their meanings by the Establishment - demands the transfer of moral standards (and of their validation) from the Establishment to the revolt against it. Similarly, the sociological and political vocabulary must be radically reshaped: it must be stripped of its false neutrality; it must be methodologically and provocatively 'moralized' in terms of the Refusal."
Herbert Marcuse, "A Biological Foundation for Socialism?" An Essay on Liberation (Boston: Beacon Press, 1971), p. 8.
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