Thought That Accepts Reality As Given Is

Non-operational Ideas Are Non-behavioral And Subversive. The Movement Of Thought Is Stopped At Barriers Which Appear As The Limits Of Reason Itself.

This (functional - E.w.) Language Controls By Reducing The Linguistic Forms And Symbols Of Reflection, Abstraction, Development, Contradiction; By Substituting Images For Concepts. It Denies Or Absorbs The Transcendent Vocabulary; It Does Not Search For But Establishes And Imposes Truth And Falsehood.

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.

It Is Generally Admitted That The Cultural Values (humanization) And The Existing Institutions And Policies Of Society Are Rarely,if Ever, In Harmony. This Opinion Has Found Expression In The Distinction Between Culture And Civilization, According To Which "culture" Refers To Some Higher Dimension Of Human Autonomy And Fulfillment, While "civilization" Designates The Realm Of Necessity, Of Socially Necessary Work And Behavior, Where Man Is Not Really Himself And In His Own Element But Is Subject To Heteronomy, To External Conditions And Needs.

Domination Has Its Own Aesthetics, And Democratic Domination Has Its Democratic Aesthetics.