Not Every Problem Someone Has With His

Free Election Of Masters Does Not Abolish The Masters Or The Slaves. Free Choice Among A Wide Variety Of Goods And Services Does Not Signify Freedom If These Goods And Services Sustain Social Controls Over A Life Of Toil And Fear – That Is, If They Sustain Alienation. And The Spontaneous Reproduction Of Superimposed Needs By The Individual Does Not Establish Autonomy; It Only Testifies To The Efficacy Of The Controls.

The Tangible Source Of Exploitation Disappears Behind The Façade Of Objective Rationality.

The Philosopher ... Subjects Experience To His Critical Judgment, And This Contains A Value Judgment Namely, That Freedom From Toil Is Preferable To Toil, And An Intelligent Life Is Preferable To A Stupid Life. It So Happened That Philosophy Was Born With These Values. Scientific Thought Had To Break This Union Of Value Judgment And Analysis, For It Became Increasingly Clear That The Philosophic Values Did Not Guide The Organisation Of Society.

The Psychoanalytic Liberation Of Memory Explodes The Rationality Of The Repressed Individual. As Cognition Gives Way To Re-cognition, The Forbidden Images And Impulses Of Childhood Begin To Tell The Truth That Reason Denies.

The Avant-garde And The Beatniks Share In The Function Of Entertaining Without Endangering The Good Conscience Of The Men Of Good Will.