If art, as Marcuse wrote, is a privilege, it’s a privilege based in the soul’s commons.

Source: https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/09/29/fighting-banal-evil-with-the-truth-of-trauma/

In 1964, in “One Dimensional Man,” the Frankfurt School’s Herbert Marcuse had already exasperatedly decried: “The people recognize themselves in their commodities; they find their soul in their automobile, hi-fi set, split-level home, kitchen equipment.”

Source: https://www.dailysignal.com/2023/03/20/bernie-the-old-bolshevik-fights-on/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=bernie-the-old-bolshevik-fights-on

We have now reached the dystopia sought by Marcuse and Firestone: a world in which all the elites in our society participate in the rewriting of durable societal norms in favor of unending sexual gratification.

Source: https://www.dailysignal.com/2023/06/07/the-revolution-at-the-heart-of-pride/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-revolution-at-the-heart-of-pride