In The Realm Of Culture, The New

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 Neo-conservative Critics Of Leftist Critics Of Mass Culture Ridicule The Protest Against Bach As Background Music In The Kitchen, Against Plato And Hegel, Shelley And Baudelaire, Marx And Freud In The Drugstore. Instead, They Insist On Recognition Of The Fact That The Classics Have Left The Mausoleum And Come To Life Again, That People Are Just So Much More Educated. True, But Coming To Life As Classics, They Come To Life As Other Than Themselves; They Are Deprived Of Their Antagonistic Force, Of The Estrangement Which Was The Very Dimension Of Their Truth.

A Work Of Art Can Be Called Revolutionary If, By Virtue Of The Aesthetic Transformation, It Represents, In The Exemplary Fate Of Individuals, The Prevailing Unfreedom And The Rebelling Forces, Thus Breaking Through The Mystified (and Petrified) Social Reality, And Opening The Horizon Of Change (liberation).

The Abbreviations (e.g. Nato, Un, Ussr - E.w.) Denote That And Only That Which Is Institutionalized In Such A Way That The Transcending Connotation Is Cut Off. The Meaning Is Fixed, Doctored, Loaded. Once It Has Become An Official Vocable, Constantly Repeated In General Usage, "sanctioned" By The Intellectuals, It Has Lost All Cognitive Value And Serves Merely For Recognition Of An Unquestionable Fact.

The Capabilities (intellectual And Material) Of Contemporary Society Are Immeasurably Greater Than Ever Before - Which Means That The Scope Of Society's Domination Over The Individual Is Immeasurably Greater Than Ever Before. Our Society Distinguishes Itself By Conquering The Centrifugal Social Forces With Technology Rather Than Terror, On The Dual Basis Of An Overwhelming Efficiency And An Increasing Standard Of Living.