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One Pill, Two Pill, Red Pill, Blue Pill: Herbert Marcuse and the Administered Society

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The Importance of Objectivity in Democracy

"Objectivity may fulfill a very different function if we're living in a democracy with totalitarian organization," he says. "That which is going to be called objective is going to reinforce the totalitarian state." In 1965, Marcusa said that people have a predisposition to believe that the FBI is good. He's criticizing the world he's created.

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