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Technological rationality reveals its political character as it becomes the great vehicle of better domination, creating a truely totalitarian universe in which society and nature, mind and body are kept in a state of permanent mobilization for the defense of this universe.

Herbert Marcuse

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Herbert Marcuse
Age: 81 †
Born: 1898
Born: July 19
Died: 1979
Died: July 29
Philosopher
Political Theorist
Sociologist
University Teacher
Berlin
Germany
States
Creating
Rationality
Body
Becomes
Domination
Better
State
Reveals
Great
Society
Vehicle
Mind
Universe
Technological
Political
Permanent
Nature
Kept
Mobilization
Character
Defense
Totalitarian

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