That Which Is Cannot Be

In [aristotle's] Formal Logic, Thought Is Organized In A Manner Very Different From That Of The Platonic Dialogue. In This Formal Logic, Thought Is Indifferent Toward Its Objects. Whether They Are Mental Or Physical, Whether They Pertain To Society Or To Nature, They Become Subject To The Same General Laws Of Organization, Calculation, And Conclusion - But They Do So As Fungible Signs Or Symbols, In Abstraction From Their Particular "substance." This General Quality (quantitative Quality) Is The Precondition Of Law And Order - In Logic As Well As In Society - The Price Of Universal Control.

The Sickness Of The Individual Is Ultimately Caused By And Sustained By The Sickness Of His Civilization

The People Are Led To Find In The Productive Apparatus The Effective Agent Of Thought And Action To Which Their Personal Thought And Action Can And Must Be Surrendered. And In This Transfer, The Apparatus Also Assumes The Role Of A Moral Agent. Conscience Is Absolved By Reification.

The Truth Of Literature And Art Has Always Been Granted (if It Was Granted At All) As One Of A "higher" Order, Which Should Not And Indeed Did Not Disturb The Order Of Business. What Has Changed In The Contemporary Period Is The Difference Between The Two Orders And Their Truths. The Absorbent Power Of Society Depletes The Artistic Dimension By Assimilating Its Antagonistic Contents. In The Realm Of Culture, The New Totalitarianism Manifests Itself Precisely In A Harmonizing Pluralism, Where The Most Contradictory Works And Truths Peacefully Coexist In Indifference.

The Intellectual Is Called On The Carpet... Don't You Conceal Something? You Talk A Language Which Is Suspect. You Don't Talk Like The Rest Of Us, Like The Man In The Street, But Rather Like A Foreigner Who Does Not Belong Here. We Have To Cut You Down To Size, Expose Your Tricks, Purge You.