The Happy Consciousness Is Shaky Enough A

It Is Generally Admitted That The Cultural Values (humanization) And The Existing Institutions And Policies Of Society Are Rarely,if Ever, In Harmony. This Opinion Has Found Expression In The Distinction Between Culture And Civilization, According To Which "culture" Refers To Some Higher Dimension Of Human Autonomy And Fulfillment, While "civilization" Designates The Realm Of Necessity, Of Socially Necessary Work And Behavior, Where Man Is Not Really Himself And In His Own Element But Is Subject To Heteronomy, To External Conditions And Needs.

In Its Relation To The Reality Of Daily Life, The High Culture Of The Past Was Many Things Opposition And Adornment, Outcry And Resignation. But It Was Also The Appearance Of The Realm Of Freedom: The Refusal To Behave.

Institutionalized Desublimation Thus Appears To Be An Aspect Of The "conquest Of Transcendence" Achieved By The One-dimensional Society. Just As This Society Tends To Reduce, And Even Absorb Opposition (the Qualitative Difference!) In The Realm Of Politics And Higher Culture, So It Does In The Instinctual Sphere. The Result Is The Atrophy Of The Mental Organs For Grasping The Contradictions And The Alternatives And, In The One Remaining Dimension Of Technological Rationality, The Happy Consciousness Comes To Prevail.

Thought And Speech Are Of A Thinking And Speaking Subject, And If The Life Of The Latter Depends On The Performance Of A Superimposed Function, It Depends On Fulfilling The Requirements Of This Function Thus It Depends On Those Who Control These Requirements.

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