Liberating Tolerance, Then, Would Mean Intolerance Against

Those Who Devote Their Lives To Earning A Living Are Incapable Of Living A Human Existence.

The Society Which Projects And Undertakes The Technological Transformation Of Nature Alters The Base Of Domination By Gradually Replacing Personal Dependence (of The Slave On The Master, The Serf On The Lord Of The Manor, The Lord On The Donor Of The Fief, Etc.) With Dependence On The "objective Order Of Things" (on Economic Laws, The Market Etc.).

Art Breaks Open A Dimension Inaccessible To Other Experience, A Dimension In Which Human Beings, Nature, And Things No Longer Stand Under The Law Of The Established Reality Principle...the Encounter With The Truth Of Art Happens In The Estranging Language And Images Which Make Perceptible, Visible, And Audible That Which Is No Longer, Or Not Yet, Perceived, Said, And Heard In Everyday Life.

Technical Progress And More Comfortable Living Permit The Systematic Inclusion Of Libidinal Components Into The Realm Of Commodity Production And Exchange. But No Matter How Controlled The Mobilization Of Instinctual Energy May Be (it Sometimes Amounts To A Scientific Management Of Libido), No Matter How Much It May Serve As A Prop For The Status Quo - It Is Also Gratifying To The Managed Individuals, Just As Racing The Outboard Motor, Pushing The Power Lawn Mower, And Speeding The Automobile Are Fun.

If Mass Communications Blend Together Harmoniously, And Often Unnoticeably, Art, Politics, Religion, And Philosophy With Commercials, They Bring These Realms Of Culture To Their Common Denominator -- The Commodity Form. The Music Of The Soul Is Also The Music Of Salesmanship. Exchange Value, Not Truth Value, Counts.