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

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The Repressive Tolerance Argument

Marcuse: The people exposed to the simple partiality are no tabular rasa. They are indoctrinated by the conditions under which they live and think in which they do not transcend. So we have to propagandize them the other way to get them to red-pill, he says. He's wrong here, but this is the crux of his repressive tolerance argument. Showing the juxtaposition, showing the asymmetry sets you free, not slanting it the other way.

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