Thought That Accepts Reality As Given Is

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 Means Of Communication, The Irresistible Output Of The Entertainment And Information Industry Carry With Them Prescribed Attitudes And Habits, Certain Intellectual And Emotional Reactions Which Bind The Consumers To The Producers And, Through The Latter To The Whole Social System. The Products Indoctrinate And Manipulate; They Promote A False Consciousness Which Is Immune Against Its Falsehood...thus Emerges A Pattern Of One-dimensional Thought And Behavior.

The Psychoanalytic Liberation Of Memory Explodes The Rationality Of The Repressed Individual. As Cognition Gives Way To Re-cognition, The Forbidden Images And Impulses Of Childhood Begin To Tell The Truth That Reason Denies.

One Can Delineate The Domain Of Philosophy However One Likes, But In Its Search For Truth, Philosophy Is Always Concerned With Human Existence. Authentic Philosophizing Refuses To Remain At The Stage Of Knowledge […]. Care For Human Existence And Its Truth Makes Philosophy A 'practical Science' In The Deepest Sense, And It Also Leads Philosophy—and This Is The Crucial Point—into The Concrete Distress Of Human Existence.

The People Recognize Themselves In Their Commodities; They Find Their Soul In Their Automobile, Hi-fi Set, Split-level Home, Kitchen Equipment.