Nobody Really Thinks Who Does Not Abstract

This Society Turns Everything It Touches Into A Potential Source Of Progress And Exploitation, Of Drudgery And Satisfaction, Of Freedom And Of Oppression.

[art] Can Speak Its Own Language Only As Long As The Images Are Alive Which Refuse And Refute The Established Order.

Non-operational Ideas Are Non-behavioral And Subversive. The Movement Of Thought Is Stopped At Barriers Which Appear As The Limits Of Reason Itself.

The Closed Language Does Not Demonstrate And Explain It Communicates Decision, Dictum, Command. Where It Defines, The Definition Becomes "separation Of Good From Evil;" It Establishes Unquestionable

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.