“The simpler we make social reality appear to be by reference to language defined as an instrument for speaking about things other to it, the better able we are to supplant dialectics with paradox, a mere contradiction in terms, a literary technique. And language proves it's mettle by it's ability to smooth over the contradictions which it discovers through observing its grammar.”
-H.T. Wilson, American Ideology: Science, Technology and Organization as Modes of Rationality
“The spectacle inherits all the weaknesses of the Western philosophical project which undertook to comprehend activity in terms of categories of seeing; furthermore, it is based on the incessant spread of the precise technical rationality which grew out of this thought. The spectacle does not realize philosophy, it philosophizes reality. The concrete life of everyone has been degraded into a speculative universe.”
-Guy Debord, The Society of the Spectacle
“The most efficient oppressor is the one who persuades his underlings to love, desire and identify with his power, and any practice of political emancipation thus involves that most difficult of all forms of liberations, freeing ourselves from ourselves."
-Terry Eagleton
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