The Web Of Domination Has Become The

The Web Of Domination Has Become The Web Of Reason Itself, And This Society Is Fatally Entangled In It.

While It [tolerance] Is More Or Less Quietly And Constitutionally Withdrawn From The Opposition, It Is Made Compulsory Behavior With Respect To Established Policies.

Technical Progress And More Comfortable Living Permit The Systematic Inclusion Of Libidinal Components Into The Realm Of Commodity Production And Exchange. But No Matter How Controlled The Mobilization Of Instinctual Energy May Be (it Sometimes Amounts To A Scientific Management Of Libido), No Matter How Much It May Serve As A Prop For The Status Quo - It Is Also Gratifying To The Managed Individuals, Just As Racing The Outboard Motor, Pushing The Power Lawn Mower, And Speeding The Automobile Are Fun.

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.

Glorification Of The 'natural' Is Part Of The Ideology Which Protects An Unnatural Society In Its Struggle Against Liberation.