Domination Has Its Own Aesthetics, And Democratic

Self-determination, The Autonomy Of The Individual, Asserts Itself In The Right To Race His Automobile, To Handle His Power Tools, To Buy A Gun, To Communicate To Mass Audiences His Opinion, No Matter How Ignorant, How Aggressive, It May Be.

The Truth Of Literature And Art Has Always Been Granted (if It Was Granted At All) As One Of A "higher" Order, Which Should Not And Indeed Did Not Disturb The Order Of Business. What Has Changed In The Contemporary Period Is The Difference Between The Two Orders And Their Truths. The Absorbent Power Of Society Depletes The Artistic Dimension By Assimilating Its Antagonistic Contents. In The Realm Of Culture, The New Totalitarianism Manifests Itself Precisely In A Harmonizing Pluralism, Where The Most Contradictory Works And Truths Peacefully Coexist In Indifference.

Thought That Accepts Reality As Given Is No Thought At All.

The Societal Division Of Labor Obtains The Dignity Of An Ontological Condition.

Technological Rationality Reveals Its Political Character As It Becomes The Great Vehicle Of Better Domination, Creating A Truely Totalitarian Universe In Which Society And Nature, Mind And Body Are Kept In A State Of Permanent Mobilization For The Defense Of This Universe.