Saturday, November 5, 2016

Marcuse – A Strange Statement


“But the perversion of the capabilities of technological reality reveals itself in the fact that the function of politics is joined with that of the entertainment and beauty parlor industry – a fatally premature juncture. When a candidate for the highest political office appears on the television show of a popular comedian, he re-enacts the satyr-play after the ancient tragedy. Finis tragoediae – but it is not so much the hero as the people who would make the ritual sacrifice.”

Herbert Marcuse, "Language and Technological Society" (Boston, MA: Beacon Press), p. 74.

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