Every good book is stuffed with brilliant selling trics.
The overall message is mostly very short.
Herbert Marcuse: Eros and Civilization
London: Alan Lane: The Penguin Press, 1969. Intuition versus Idea / paradigm view. Review in 2012 by your Personal Professor Henk Tuten Change is Inevitable and The Young are Warriors of Change
Freud claimed that in human civilization 'rational analysis' (wishful dreaming = 'reason') replaced instincts, being a higher state. 'Ratio' indeed in the Western World suppressed intuition, except for psychiatrists that is more like a catastrophe than like getting closer to the human notion 'Truth'. Collective happiness produces the energy for progress, but 'rationally' 'unlawful' pleasure was taxed with the IDEA guilt. Freud 'reasoned' this into inevitable clash between 'collective behavior' ('rationally' seen as primitive) and individual 'ideas' ('rationally' 'rational dreams are advanced) (body-mind split)
Sex for 'individual' brain-orgasms is allowed as thrilling 'virtual sex reality' for 'managers' ('mind-game'-junks of braindrug 'understanding'),
bodily sex as satisfying behavior is allowed for workers (human animals) outside sex-drug industry
when not disturbing 'production-performance' (obstructing holy cash flow).
Marcuse sees 'collective' behavior (intuition) as basic of civilizations and INHERENTLY argues that 'sex' as 'work is an IDEA
[porn is an addictive virtual reality] and that only EXECUTING 'work like 'eros' is behavior'.
Intuition/'common sense' through BEHAVIOR aims at joint happiness by experimenting with change in behavior.
.Eros = the will to behave as family. Dictatorship of 'Reason'
Without mentioning it Marcuse observes that in the capitalism era few thousands of billionaires run earth as 'gods' (modern slavery). In the totally corrupted US empire around The Jetset this is since "the sixties" in strangling way obvious (Law and Order). Marcuse keeps believing in the renewal talent of youth, despite of the modern religion 'rationality' around slave-bosses like 'presidents', 'senates', 'lawyers', 'judges', 'police', 'army', 'accountants', .... In a new preface to Eros and Civilisation Marcuse writes that their protest will continue: the young are in the forefront of those who live and fight for Eros against Death... Today the fight for life, the fight for Eros, is the political fight. Henk Tuten: Marcuse means that 'only the young can break away' (from the dominant paradigm). See FutureFighters
The Young are in The Forefront
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