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

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The Paradox of Tolerance

In the contemporary period, the democratic argument for abstract tolerance tends to be invalidated by the invalidation of the democratic process itself. Deliberating force of democracy was the chance it gave to effective dissent on the individual as well as on this as well as social scale. The integration of opposites in a society which uses technology as an instrument of domination sound familiar, effective dissent. You can have right wing pro left wing protests, but you can't have right wing ones. And again, we're in that weird paradoxical situation now where it's like, crap, that's where we live, but you created it. Sound familiar, guys? This is prior to all expression and communication,

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