One Pill, Two Pill, Red Pill, Blue Pill: Herbert Marcuse and the Administered Society
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The Importance of Tolerance in Philosophy
Marcuse argues that certain behaviors, first of all, the critical theorists have the ability to tell right and wrong and truth and false better than other people. And upon that basis, they are more able to work toward liberation, which is good, and prevent the maintenance of the automatically oppressive status quo, which is bad. But when the operation of society is at stake, we cannot be indiscriminate in our tolerance. We'd be very discriminating in our tolerance, and we have to be very tolerant of things that he approves of that lead to a liberation - and very intolerant of anything that stops that. The last, I guess, is one sentence that we left off with at part one reads
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