Books: One-dimensional man: addendum

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@@ -1900,6 +1900,18 @@ Technological Project. Like this:
     needs with a minimum of toil, the transformation of leisure into free time, the
     pacification of the struggle for existence.
 
+### Terrorized beauty
+
+    Beauty reveals its terror as highly classified nuclear plants and laboratories
+    become “Industrial Parks” in pleasing surroundings; Civil Defense Headquarters
+    display a “deluxe fallout-shelter” with wall-to-wall carpeting (“soft”), lounge
+    chairs, television, and Scrabble, “designed as a combination family room during
+    peacetime (sic!) and family fallout shelter should war break out.”1 If the
+    horror of such realizations does not penetrate into consciousness, if it is
+    readily taken for granted, it is because these achievements are (a) perfectly
+    rational in terms of the existing order, (b) tokens of human ingenuity and
+    power beyond the traditional limits of imagination.
+
 ### What brings chance: practice
 
     Dialectical theory is not refuted, but it cannot offer the remedy. It cannot be