Preaching Nonviolence On Principle Reproduces The Existing

Entertainment And Learning Are Not Opposites; Entertainment May Be The Most Effective Mode Of Learning.

Technological Rationality Reveals Its Political Character As It Becomes The Great Vehicle Of Better Domination, Creating A Truely Totalitarian Universe In Which Society And Nature, Mind And Body Are Kept In A State Of Permanent Mobilization For The Defense Of This Universe.

The Truth Of Literature And Art Has Always Been Granted (if It Was Granted At All) As One Of A "higher" Order, Which Should Not And Indeed Did Not Disturb The Order Of Business. What Has Changed In The Contemporary Period Is The Difference Between The Two Orders And Their Truths. The Absorbent Power Of Society Depletes The Artistic Dimension By Assimilating Its Antagonistic Contents. In The Realm Of Culture, The New Totalitarianism Manifests Itself Precisely In A Harmonizing Pluralism, Where The Most Contradictory Works And Truths Peacefully Coexist In Indifference.

The Way In Which A Society Organizes The Life Of Its Members ... Is One "project" Of Realization Among Others. But Once The Project Has Become Operative In The Basic Institutions And Relations, It Tends To Become Exclusive And To Determine The Development Of The Society As A Whole.

Our Mass Media Have Little Difficulty In Selling Particular Interests As Those Of All Sensible Men. The Political Needs Of Society Become Individual Needs And Aspirations, Their Satisfaction Promotes Business And The Commonweal, And The Whole Appeals To Be The Very Embodiment Of Reason.