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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 Showing People the Truth

In part two of a three-part series, John Sutter tackles the essay by Mark Ruse and Christy Datson. They argue that people can't understand something bigger if they don't see it from different perspectives. In this case, he says democracy is more humane than an institutionalized intolerance. The question is whether this is the only alternative to authoritarianism or totalitarianism.

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