Herbert Marcuse Interview about One Dimensional Man (1964)

[@blairhakamies4132]

Excellent 🌹thank you for sharing it.

[@nevetsaruges4453]

sir. where on earth did you get all these amazing audio tracks? so invaluable!!!!

[@criticaltheoryresearchnetw2149]

Hooray for this!

[@gphilipvirgil355]

Excellent. Thank you

[@rubenvaldermendez3873]

really thanks.

[@joehinman1026]

So brilliant just hearing it all these years latter.

[@scotthowell7676]

Left or right leaning, if you make an effort to hear what he says you'll hear that he never mentions our leaders and that his comments are futuristic. A "trans-valuation of values" as we move into the techno-era using the "established direction of progress." Our leaders are not the political parties we want to think them to be; our leaders are the producers of that which we "need to waste" and we are incapable of understanding how manipulated we are by consumerism. Our leaders are hiding in the TV, advertising, movies, (new) media, and internet (TAMMI): "the radical redirection of progress."

Please list the name of the main interviewer. Was it Christopher Koch?

[@helloimbrettgreen]

"they are certainly more protected, they are even institutionalized in the american system.... but precisely here, i have a great fear that this institutionalization of civil rights and especially the right and liberty to descent is gradually corroded and reduced. not by terror. not by a conspiracy. but simply by the mechanisms of technical growth within the framework of the established institutions."

[@JS-dt1tn]

Aaaaaand we're here.

[@victorsauvage1890]

Thanks

[@antotyrrell2012]

Marcuse was an intellectual in love with his own thoughts that one half of humanity would pronounce as Tyranical but then he would have to proounce the same

[@ivst3655]

60 years ago this probably sounded abstract and far fetched. Today, it is the reality, the world we live in...

[@lukadraganic]

Does anyone know what is the interviewers name?

[@Jordan-eh3fv]

Pessimistic, but no doubt accurate

[@johnstewart7025]

The ruling class will not willingly give up power.

[@nuqwestr]

@You know where I like it... Yes, human behavior will always express itself regardless of the framework, we are not blank slates reformed by culture, we are formed by the characteristics of evolution, culture is only one part of that process.

[@blairhakamies4132]

@@nuqwestr excellent 👏

[@leomoore3597]

People not Profit !

[@billyranger1236]

Who are you? The interviewer? U r have the qualities of a man about to achieve enlightenment. Good for you. You are wise. Have a good life Harshal

[@danielgolus4600]

WTF? Enlightenment? How about Darkness. He's an imbecile.

[@RingJando]

billy? take your meds

[@BarryWillBuck]

46:58 I agree that the use of various substances just distracts individuals from problems in society. I don't agree with this guy about how the problems are to be addressed. I actually think he sounds ill intentioned.

[@johnmiller7453]

We don't really learn from history. Each generation must repeat the mistakes of the previous one. It's not a good world that I see out my window.

[@mrJohnDesiderio]

They are ushered into the same system after the scaffolding of newer industries have emerged in the market. Slaves 2.0 replacing the older slaves

[@martinrea8548]

Close the curtains and look inside yourself. Solipsism rocks.😂

[@blairhakamies4132]

We are limited biologically. It is naturally that the social constructions are continuously mutating within the same limit range. The secret might be to live a decent life with so large quantity of unaware persons around us. From 1844 until recently we had the dominant religion as the "money" now the emerging religion is "data". Money is no longer a good instrument for plutocrats...💵💴💶💷

[@geoffreynhill2833]

Marcuse is shrewd and down-to-earth. He is hampered by the capitalist work ethic. Folk are proud to describe themselves as "hard-working", regardless of the value of their work. Their status (value) is measured by the money they make, not by any real achievement.

[@ladybug591]

geoffrey n HILL ... Who elected you Sir to speak for the "folk" as you quaintly describe the people of America? Speak for yourself. Are you personally hampered by the "Work Ethic" too? In past history we used to hunt for our food, now we create employment to survive, it's an age old idea. Are you a "lay-about?" Maybe you are a man only capable of parroting the manipulative writings and words of those who hate America. Perhaps you are an anti-America American who prefers hand outs and taking the money other people trusted to the government. Why don't you go elsewhere and show others how to succeed in life. That tax money got into the pocket of your University employed Marcuse and he used it to cause as much havoc to the American way of life as he can. You seem hand in glove with that idea . Your ridiculous and disparaging remark is all I have to go on as to your character. Words have meanings. Leave people to live their lives in peace.

[@Schizopantheist]

All you need is a great man to rouse the whole nation to a great national endeavour to which your hard work and lives can be sacrificed. Heil... Trump?

[@victorsauvage1890]

Think again

[@geoffreynhill2833]

@@victorsauvage1890 ????????????? Greets from UK 🌈🦉

[@crapmalls]

What would that look like? No idea 😂

[@dennismarcus9501]

greatest genius of all time

[@paulmurphy42]

Hahahahaha Good one

[@dorianphilotheates3769]

Dennis Marcus - Brilliant, no doubt, but let’s not get carried away...

[@albertogutierrez9734]

Probably equal to the Fuhrer. So much destruction in Latin America.

[@dennismarcus9501]

we use several of the videos on this site

[@youreshouldoflearntgrammer8277]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@unique_newyork]

The interviewer sounds like a young William Buckley. No?

[@grandtrooper8684]

I think it is him. Fascinating

[@Schizopantheist]

I don't think either of those gentlemen are William Buckley. That individual has a rather characteristic drawl.

[@Schizopantheist]

Plenty of verbose ignorance from the triggered edgelords in the comments.

[@celestialteapot3310]

More relevent today than ever, especially as capitalism destroys the habitat necessary for continued human existence.

[@ijohnny.]

Exactly, thx

[@albertogutierrez9734]

And socialism does not?

[@bobgolden939]

Capitalism gives you clean drinking water instead of dysentery. Heat to cook away bacteria. Roofing to keep you from drowning in the rain. And a few other things to keep earth from killing you. So drop the childish, narcissistic slogans given to you. Original, informed thoughts are a bit more interesting.

[@ColorMatching]

@@albertogutierrez9734 go play with rocks, baby-brain

[@ColorMatching]

@@bobgolden939 capitalism isn't responsible for clean drinking water. You are absolutely right about capitalism providing housing and heat. These things did not exist prior to capitalism. I can only dream of being as smart as you when I'm older. Go to bed, old man.

[@lalaboards]

The only one dimensional little man is the author !!!!!!

[@markofsaltburn]

Edgelady.

[@vesalore696]

Edgy girl

[@justadad134]

"By totalitarian, I use the term fully aware this might violate certain taboos. We are used to applying this term only to, first, fascist/Nazi society, then the communist society. That is to say, we are used to applying the term 'totalitarian' to societies under a more or less terroristic dictatorship with a one party system with a more or less terroristic enemy nation of all opposition. I believe that such a confined restricted use of the term 'totalitarian' is itself ideological." So, let me go ahead and redefine the term completely and use it as a rhetorical weapon to criticize society, thereby fooling young minds into thinking capitalist societies like America are fundamentally evil and need to be destroyed. Nothing sinister in that. "By 'totalitarian' I mean the constellation of situations in which the private as well as public existence of man--of the individual--is controlled. Is exposed to standardized required ways of behavior, standardized imposed values, standardized imposed needs." So you're completely redefining the term "totalitarian" to mean not terroristic dictatorships but to refer to any society that imposes a set of rules that individuals must follow if they are to be accepted by that society at large. Folks, Marcuse is not critiquing capitalism. His crosshairs are aimed squarely at the very composition of humanity itself and the way humanity organizes itself at its most fundamental level since the beginning of time. By critiquing the very basis of any societal order, Marcuse reveals his true intention--a desire for absolute chaos. This man and the gender/race/sex/etc. studies departments spawned by his ideas need to be relegated to the dustbins of history. Good riddance.

[@ijohnny.]

You couldn't hold an intelligent conversation with him for 5 seconds.

[@michaelshesterkin7988]

I think you're being a bit harsh. If you'd like to know what he's talking about, take a look at this clip from the Matrix and you'll get a sense of it. kzbin.info/www/bejne/sHaagX6In9ecmpY We are inundated by a corporate-political system that drives over-consumption and waste to the point of destroying the planet. Perhaps to your point, this is nothing new. Civilizations have, throughout all of human history, done the same sorts of things, yet not at this scale, nor with the sort of blind ignorance that seems to plague this culture. The problem is failing to recognize what's happening, or if one does, doing anything about it. To see it necessitates dissent; it means getting off your ass and waking up. Otherwise you just keep working, consuming and sticking your face in the stupid little plastic and glass device you carry in your pocket.

[@ladybug591]

Well said - the interviewer was far too polite which was the problem back then. He could have wiped him out as you have just done. NICE. Regards.

[@ladybug591]

@@michaelshesterkin7988 Soooo - we get our pay check and then we are all bused by some evil Capitalist organization and taken to the Capitalist shopping Malls, and then forced to purchase Capitalist items all of which are no use whatsoever to us silly people. We helplessly buy anything we see. Just terrible ain't it, I was forced to buy a chocolate the other day, it was horrible. We all just love throwing our garbage all over the environment and I went down to the river the other day just to pee in it. America is just one large garbage pile still and I have forgotten that it was all cleaned up. Oh dear where have the memories gone, was that another life? You lie - liar. Take YOUR blindfold off, oh also your silly covid mask and wake up - you have been lied to and did not defend your country. This creep you defend has assisted the totalitarians to take over what was a great society, using your own children against you. If you are young then you will be next, the Left always eats it's own and murders it's own children. Mind you own business, leave people to live their life as they want. Go to another country if you don't like it where you are, learn about the world, learn that America is a great country and that there are worse countries in this world and extremely cruel people. Go. Go. See how America has a limited population, unlike many other countries who prefer to live as they do. Go lecture them. Go, Go to China, tell them about the clean water and seas of America, the boundless plains, the sweep of untouched mountains , the clean blue skies, the fact that people can choose to go to a job or leave a job. At present, in February 2021 it's quite plain you and your kind have ushered in a totalitarian fake government and locked down the people in their houses under a pretext. So you are now hand in glove with the CCP, Chinese Communist Party whom they admire, they are hoping to wipe out voting like the CCP has done and Utopia (for them) is just around the corner. ....and you try to use a fictional story called The Matrix, made in the American Hating Hollywood propaganda mill, as an example of your knowledge of what is happening in America. My God. Go. Leave. Go help the world and help yourself. Anti-Science, anti-commonsense, anti-human being that you are.

[@olafweyer859]

Checkout the New Discourses channel onf KZbin and listen how that monsters bs gets ripped apart.

[@relaxingsounds1386]

what an evil man

[@ColorMatching]

Why?

[@officialVozie100]

As an apache all i have to say is Israel and africa wont exist soon the asteriod will destory them and their actions to humanity

[@Jomo326]

This guy us so ungrateful for the society he lives in. 1. The fact that we aren't 5'2" and living in a feudal backwater is a miracle. 2. It's better to compare our society to other societies as opposed to hypothetical utopias.

[@johnmiller7453]

Yeah sure wouldn't want anything like a utopia. I do not think he was ungrateful. I think he wanted to improve on what was good in this society.

[@BlakeBjornstad1]

Jomo326 lol, the US is the reason we're not 5'2 living in a feudal backwater..? Lol.. what? He's merely critiquing our current shitty system. In order to overcome feudalism... some people have to critique it first... capitalism wasn't discovered by the "entrepreneurial spirit" it was won through series of struggles to overcome aristocracy and feudalism. Humans aren't at the end stage of development in terms of society and economy system, not by a long shot. Capitalism, like slavery and other human created and institutionalized horrors can be overcome as well

[@Ynimixer]

When Marcuse published this book workers were still fighting for their rights, colonies still existed and black people couldn't yet vote in the USA, not to mention other things. If anything Marcuse's contemporaries were way too blind to society's structure, definitely not him

[@dorianphilotheates3769]

Jomo326 - Danke, Dr. Hannah Friedman.

[@ladybug591]

@@BlakeBjornstad1 ...sigh...

[@stuarthicks2696]

A stock of Hegel, sprinkle some Heidegger and add a shit ton of Marx. Makes BS soup.

[@conjugatemethod]

You forgot Freud, but the likelihood is you’re full of shit.

[@Robb3348]

Out of whom would you make a stew?

[@bobgolden939]

Useless word salad .... these are the lazy ramblings of a non contributing state sponsored consumer of the capitalism he knows so little about.

[@ColorMatching]

speaking of useless word salads...jesus

[@austinsowers2974]

Found the guy who failed philosophy 101

[@deborahdean8867]

I find most economics lecturers are all about fictious, convoluted ideologies......which results in word salad.

[@oreocarlton3343]

A snake within our gate. Glad that he is dead.

[@BlakeBjornstad1]

Oreo Carlton dumbass in the comment section. Glad he's scared of what he doesn't understand.. which is everything

[@oreocarlton3343]

Blake Bjornstad are you swedish by any chance?

[@magiccarpetmusic2449]

HA ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. I would classify you as a heavily manipulated, but nonetheless somewhat willing, slave and moron. Cheers.

[@mrJohnDesiderio]

@@oreocarlton3343 you are a fascist shit