One Pill, Two Pill, Red Pill, Blue Pill: Herbert Marcuse and the Administered Society

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🗓️ 29 January 2021

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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! This part of the series, then, raises particularly interesting questions about whether or not Marcuse would support the fruits of his own work and thus sheds interesting light on the problem we currently find ourselves in. It sets the stage for answering at the end of the series how we might go about solving this problem while avoiding the mistake Marcuse plainly made. Support New Discourses: paypal.me/newdiscourses patreon.com/newdiscourses subscribestar.com/newdiscourses youtube.com/channel/UC9K5PLkj0N_b9JTPdSRwPkg/join Website: newdiscourses.com Follow: facebook.com/newdiscourses twitter.com/NewDiscourses instagram.com/newdiscourses pinterest.com/newdiscourses/ linkedin.com/company/newdiscourses minds.com/newdiscourses reddit.com/r/NewDiscourses Podcast: @newdiscourses podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/new-…es/id1499880546 bit.ly/NDGooglePodcasts open.spotify.com/show/0HfzDaXI5L4LnJQStFWgZp stitcher.com/podcast/new-discourses © 2021 New Discourses. All rights reserved.

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0:00.0	The Hello you're listening to the new Discourses Podcast this is James Lindsey and I have
0:26.1	been I've begun a process of of reading through Herbert Marcuse's repressive tolerance in a number of
0:34.6	parts. This will be the second part of that project. I don't know how many it will
0:38.6	have in the end, probably five. It's a long essay.
0:43.0	The reason I'm doing this, just in brief,
0:44.9	and it'll summarize part one for you.
0:46.6	The reason I'm doing this is because I want to convince you
0:49.1	that the logic of the left today
0:52.0	is the logic of this essay Repressive Tolerance which was
0:54.7	written by the neo-Marxist philosopher Herbert Marcusa in 1965. Its
1:01.4	publication preceded the violence that we saw in the riots of 67, 68, and 69.
1:08.0	And my argument really is that the violence we saw through 2020 and since the extraordinary
1:16.0	toleration in particular for left-wing violence and the absolute
1:20.3	censorship of right-wing anything is the logic of this essay come back into the
1:26.5	public square and I want people to understand this essay I've asked people to
1:32.0	read it people find it hard to read so I want to read through it and give understand this is I'm
1:33.0	I'm going to read it, people find it hard to read so I'm going to read
1:34.2	through it and give my commentary and explain it as we go and I'm reading the
1:37.6	whole thing. So like I said this is part two so we're picking up somewhere
1:41.2	it looks like a little short of a quarter
1:44.7	of the way through the essay.
1:46.9	In part one, we read the first,
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