The Precarious Ontological Link Between Logos And

In Conditions Of Private Property ... "life-activity" Stands In The Service Of Property Instead Of Property Standing The Service Of Free Life-activity.

The Music Of The Soul Is Also The Music Of Salesmanship. Exchange Value, Not Truth Value Counts. On It Centers The Rationality Of The Status Quo, And All Alien Rationality Is Bent To It.

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

The Ontological Concept Of Truth Is In The Centre Of A Logic Which May Serve As A Model Of Pre- Technological Rationality. It Is The Rationality Of A Two-dimensional Universe Of Discourse Which, Contrasts With The Of Thought And Behavior That Develop In The Execution Of The Technological Project.

Institutionalized Desublimation Thus Appears To Be An Aspect Of The "conquest Of Transcendence" Achieved By The One-dimensional Society. Just As This Society Tends To Reduce, And Even Absorb Opposition (the Qualitative Difference!) In The Realm Of Politics And Higher Culture, So It Does In The Instinctual Sphere. The Result Is The Atrophy Of The Mental Organs For Grasping The Contradictions And The Alternatives And, In The One Remaining Dimension Of Technological Rationality, The Happy Consciousness Comes To Prevail.