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diff --git a/books/sociedade/one-dimensional-man.md b/books/sociedade/one-dimensional-man.md index 3e459a9..af5a90a 100644 --- a/books/sociedade/one-dimensional-man.md +++ b/books/sociedade/one-dimensional-man.md @@ -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 |