The Precarious Ontological Link Between Logos And

The So-called Consumer Society And The Politics Of Corporate Capitalism Have Created A Second Nature Of Man Which Ties Him Libidinally And Aggressively To The Commodity Form. The Need For Possessing, Consuming, Handling And Constantly Renewing The Gadgets, Devices, Instruments, Engines, Offered To And Imposed Upon The People, For Using These Wares Even At The Danger Of One’s Own Destruction, Has Become A “biological” Need.

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.

If The Worker And His Boss Enjoy The Same Television Program And Visit The Same Resort Places, If The Typist Is As Attractively Made Up As The Daughter Of Her Employer, If The Negro Owns A Cadillac, If They All Read The Same Newspaper, Then This Assimilation Indicates Not The Disappearance Of Classes, But The Extent To Which The Needs And Satisfactions That Serve The Preservation Of The Establishment Are Shared By The Underlying Population.

In The Realm Of Culture, The New Totalitarianism Manifests Itself Precisely In A Harmonizing Pluralism, Where The Most Contradictory Works And Truths Peacefully Coexist In Indifference.

The Abbreviations (e.g. Nato, Un, Ussr - E.w.) Denote That And Only That Which Is Institutionalized In Such A Way That The Transcending Connotation Is Cut Off. The Meaning Is Fixed, Doctored, Loaded. Once It Has Become An Official Vocable, Constantly Repeated In General Usage, "sanctioned" By The Intellectuals, It Has Lost All Cognitive Value And Serves Merely For Recognition Of An Unquestionable Fact.