Assignment Instructions/ Description
Herbert Marcuse, in the reading excerpt from One Dimensional Man, essentially asserts all of this evidences not only the socialization of individuals into easily controlled and sated one-dimensional lives, but the irrationality of it all.
What do you think about his critique? Does advanced industrial society over-homogenize us? Does the lack of labor and consumer choice lead to marginalization of creativity, freedom, autonomous thought, etc.? Does even the expression of resistance end up as part of the "system?" If not, what do you think he's overlooking or wrong about?
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