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Re: Howard Zinn:You Can't be Neutral on a Moving Train
Posted by Marcello (Guest) - Sunday, November 27 2011, 23:25:58 (UTC)
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"Among other things his statement reveals the secret behind pop culture: Fascistic Theocrats NEED the appearance of permisivness, even decadence as a way of showing that they are "liberal"..and that Freedom exists.

There is permisveness, if there is, because there is great repression...which is also why the natural sense of "something is terribly wrong" gets chaneled into feel-good cults, pop culture, piercings, tatoos, sex, sex, sex and now legal drugs.

That avenue is the one THEY choose to allow Youth to wander down...it's easier because, for one, there's a lot of money to be made and you can always jail people and then make even more money. But it keeps people from asking the real questions....Fascists need to allow an outlet somewhere...this was learned from Hitler's mistakes....but Zappa had it right...he almost always did."

- Thank you... I detest that scum, Novak! Is he not the same asshole who outed Joe Wilson's wife, CIA's Valerie Plame?

Herbert Marcuse (Markuza) writes in "One-Dimensional Man" that everything in the advanced industrial society is permitted to establish a facade of freedom.


"Under the rule of a repressive whole, liberty can be made into a powerful instrument of domination. 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. The criterion for free choice can never be an absolute one, but neither is it entirely relative. Free eletion of masters does not abolish the masters or the slaves. Free choice among a wide variety of goods and services does not signify freedom if these goods and services sustains social controls over a life of toil and fear--that is, if they sustain alienation. And the spontanieous reproduction of superimposed needs by the individual does not establish autonomy; it only testifies to the efficacy of the controls."

- Herbert Marcuse "One-Dimensional Man" (1964)



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