2017-11-06
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So let's assume for a second that Marcuse is right,
that in a country where many of the citizens see freedom as the fundamental thing the United States embodies,
in reality,
the population is actually living under an advanced version of monopoly capitalism that's sort of metastasized and taking control of everything from art to politics to government,
with all this amounting to what's probably the most clever insidious totalitarian system in history.
Let's say you're living in that.
How would you know that you were living in it?
What sort of clues would you see around you if you did?
Would you even notice them if they were there?
Or would you frame who you are so much in relation to
that totalitarian system that nothing would ever seem out of the ordinary to you?
Herbert Marcuse would probably say that if you want to figure out the answers to these questions,
maybe it'd be useful to put yourself in the shoes of a member of an overtly totalitarian society just to see what's similar.
Let's say 1930s Nazi Germany, just for the sake of the example.
What would it be like to be a citizen living under the Third Reich?