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The Ontological Concept Of Truth Is In The Centre Of A Logic Which May Serve As A Model Of Pre- Technological Rationality. It Is The Rationality Of A Two-dimensional Universe Of Discourse Which, Contrasts With The Of Thought And Behavior That Develop In The Execution Of The Technological Project.

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.).

Hypostatized Into A Ritual Pattern, Marxian Theory Becomes Ideology. But Its Content And Function Distinguish It From Classical Forms Of Ideology; It Is Not False Consciousness, But A Rather Consciousness Of Falsehood, A Falsehood Which Is Corrected In The Context Of The Higher Truth Represented By The Objective Historical Interest.

If The Worker And His Boss Enjoy The Same Television Program And Visit The Same Resort Places, If The Typist Is As Attractively Made Up As The Daughter Of Her Employer, If The Negro Owns A Cadillac, If They All Read The Same Newspaper, Then This Assimilation Indicates Not The Disappearance Of Classes, But The Extent To Which The Needs And Satisfactions That Serve The Preservation Of The Establishment Are Shared By The Underlying Population.

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.