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Episode #109 ... The Frankfurt School pt. 2 - The Enlightenment

Philosophize This!

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Is There Nothing to Be Done for Marcusa Technology?

There's no guarantee in this universe that a political or economic system is going to work when it's tried. Marcusa would say, sure, rapid technological progress being made, but is that progress over all as a species? Is having the eephone 12 more important than the people putting it together that are jumping off the factories committing suicide during their lunch break? Yes, the system works, but what do we have to sacrifice as a species to be able to achieve that world? By the way, marcus is not saying that we should throw out capitalism to morrow and implement marxismand everything's going to be great. He explicitly says that if you instantly did away with capitalism

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