Under The Rule Of A Repressive Whole,

The Range Of Choice Open To The Individual Is Not The Decisive Factor In Determining The Degree Of Human Freedom, But What Can Be Chosen And What Is Chosen By The Individual.

At The Classical Origins Of Philosophic Thought, The Transcending Concepts Remained Committed To The Prevailing Separation Between Intellectual And Manual Labor To The Established Society Of Enslavement. ... Those Who Bore The Brunt Of The Untrue Reality And Who, Therefore, Seemed To Be Most In Need Of Attaining Its Subversion Were Not The Concern Of Philosophy. It Abstracted From Them And Continued To Abstract From Them.

The People Are Led To Find In The Productive Apparatus The Effective Agent Of Thought And Action To Which Their Personal Thought And Action Can And Must Be Surrendered. And In This Transfer, The Apparatus Also Assumes The Role Of A Moral Agent. Conscience Is Absolved By Reification.

The So-called Consumer Society And The Politics Of Corporate Capitalism Have Created A Second Nature Of Man Which Ties Him Libidinally And Aggressively To The Commodity Form. The Need For Possessing, Consuming, Handling And Constantly Renewing The Gadgets, Devices, Instruments, Engines, Offered To And Imposed Upon The People, For Using These Wares Even At The Danger Of One’s Own Destruction, Has Become A “biological” Need.

In [aristotle's] Formal Logic, Thought Is Organized In A Manner Very Different From That Of The Platonic Dialogue. In This Formal Logic, Thought Is Indifferent Toward Its Objects. Whether They Are Mental Or Physical, Whether They Pertain To Society Or To Nature, They Become Subject To The Same General Laws Of Organization, Calculation, And Conclusion - But They Do So As Fungible Signs Or Symbols, In Abstraction From Their Particular "substance." This General Quality (quantitative Quality) Is The Precondition Of Law And Order - In Logic As Well As In Society - The Price Of Universal Control.