The Organism Is Thus Being Preconditioned For

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.

The Organism Is Thus Being Preconditioned For The Spontaneous Acceptance Of What Is Offered. Inasmuch As The Greater Liberty Involves A Contraction Rather Than Extension And Development Of Instinctual Needs, It Works For Rather Than Against The Status Quo Of General Repression - One Might Speak Of "institutionalized Desublimation". The Latter Appears To Be A Vital Factor In The Making Of The Authoritarian Personality Of Our Time.

Art Cannot Change The World, But It Can Contribute To Changing The Consciousness And Drives Of The Men And Women Who Could Change The World.

The Happy Consciousness Is Shaky Enough A Thin Surface Over Fear, Frustration, And Disgust.

When The Whole Is At Stake, There Is No Crime Except That Of Rejecting The Whole, Or Not Defending It. ... Those Who Identify Themselves With The Whole, Who Are Installed As The Leaders And Defenders Of The Whole Can Make Mistakes, But They Cannot Do Wrong - They Are Not Guilty. They May Become Guilty Again When This Identification No Longer Holds, When They Are Gone.