The avant-garde and the beatniks share in the function of entertaining without endangering the good conscience of the men of good will. - Herbert Marcuse

When capitalism is negated, social processes no longer stand under the rule of blind natural laws. P. 318

The closed language does not demonstrate and explain—it communicates decision, dictum, command. Where it defines, the definition becomes “separation of good from evil;” it establishes unquestionable

Our mass media have little difficulty in selling particular interests as those of all sensible men. The political needs of society become individual needs and aspirations, their satisfaction promotes business and the commonweal, and the whole appeals to be the very embodiment of Reason.