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Podcast: New Discourses
Episode: One Pill, Two Pill, Red Pill, Blue Pill: Herbert Marcuse and the Administered Society
Description: The New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Episode 18
Repressive Tolerance Series, Part 2 of 4
In this second part of his annotated reading of Marcuse's "Repressive Tolerance," James Lindsay reads and explains the portion of the essay where Marcuse defines the "administered society" that he claims we live in. The listener will find striking parallels to today's world, which certainly qualifies as the type of "administered society" far more accurately than the world that Marcuse inhabited in the 1960s when he wrote the essay, but paradoxically, or ironically, because it adopts the logic of this very essay as justification for its administration...