'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.
Tuesday, 17 July 2012
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