“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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