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Re: news media and social soma

At 3:23 PM -0500 3/2/97, Gregoire de Nowell (ci-devant) wrote:

>The demand for the alternative is not "latent," it
>is annihilated so long as the system delivers a job
>and a car.

Oh really? Why, then, does the average bookstore stock acres of "recovery,"
"spirituality," and "self-help" volumes, and do these things proliferate
similarly in other media. In U.S. society, there is a profound sense of
living what Adorno called a "damaged" life, though it's typically
articulated in highly individualized/spiritualized ways. We used to call
this alienation, before we stopped believing in such things. We badly need
a Marcuse for the age of rising stress and falling wgaes.


Doug

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