Technological Rationality Reveals Its Political Character As

Dialectical Thought Understands The Critical Tension Between "is" And "ought" First As An Ontological Condition, Pertaining To The Structure Of Being Itself. However, The Recognition Of This State Of Being Its Theory Intends From The Beginning A Concrete Practice. Seen In The Light Of A Truth Which Appears In Them Falsified Or Denied, The Given Facts Themselves Appear False And Negative.

Such Abstraction Which Refuses To Accept The Given Universe Of Facts As The Final Context Of Validation, Such "transcending" Analysis Of The Facts In The Light Of Their Arrested And Denied Possibilities, Pertains To The Very Structure Of Social Theory.

The Truth Of Art Lies In Its Power To Break The Monopoly Of Established Reality To Define What Is Real.

There Is No Free Society Without Silence, Without The Internal And External Spaces Of Solitude In Which The Individual Freedom Can Develop.

The Means Of Communication, The Irresistible Output Of The Entertainment And Information Industry Carry With Them Prescribed Attitudes And Habits, Certain Intellectual And Emotional Reactions Which Bind The Consumers To The Producers And, Through The Latter To The Whole Social System. The Products Indoctrinate And Manipulate; They Promote A False Consciousness Which Is Immune Against Its Falsehood...thus Emerges A Pattern Of One-dimensional Thought And Behavior.