Tuesday 17 July 2012

50 Shades Of Grey: Bestseller Of Oppression

'Freed from the sublimated form which was the very token of its irreconcilable dreams – a form which is the style, the language in which the story is told – sexuality turns into a vehicle for the bestsellers of oppression. It could not be said of any of the sexy women in contemporary literature what Balzac says of the whore Esther: that hers was the tenderness which blossoms only in infinity. This society turns everything it touches into a potential source of progress and of exploitation, of drudgery and satisfaction, of freedom and of oppression. Sexuality is no exception.' 

Herbert Marcuse, The Conquest of the Unhappy Consciousness: Repressive Desublimation 
This society turns everything it touches into mere dust.
"This heaven gives me migraine" - Gang Of Four.

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