Not Every Problem Someone Has With His

Reason ... Contradicts The Established Order Of Men And Things On Behalf Of Existing Societal Forces That Reveal The Irrational Character Of This Order For "rational" Is A Mode Of Thought And Action Which Is Geared To Reduce Ignorance, Destruction, Brutality, And Oppression.

Obscenity Is A Moral Concept In The Verbal Arsenal Of The Establishment, Which Abuses The Term By Applying It, Not To Expressions Of Its Own Morality But To Those Of Another. Pbscene Is Not The Picture Of A Naked Woman Who Exposes Her Pubic Hair But That Of A Fully Clad General Who Exposes His Medals Rewarded In A War Of Aggression; Obscene Is Not The Ritual Of The Hippies But The Declaration Of A High Dignitary Of The Church That War Is Necessary For Peace.

All Liberation Depends On The Consciousness Of Servitude, And The Emergence Of This Consciousness Is Always Hampered By The Predominance Of Needs And Satisfactions Which, To A Great Extent, Have Become The Individual's Own.

The Strains And Stresses Suffered By The Individual In Society Are Grounded In The Normal Functioning Of That Society (and Of The Individual!) Rather Than In Its Disturbances And Diseases.

The Philosopher ... Subjects Experience To His Critical Judgment, And This Contains A Value Judgment Namely, That Freedom From Toil Is Preferable To Toil, And An Intelligent Life Is Preferable To A Stupid Life. It So Happened That Philosophy Was Born With These Values. Scientific Thought Had To Break This Union Of Value Judgment And Analysis, For It Became Increasingly Clear That The Philosophic Values Did Not Guide The Organisation Of Society.