Talk:Dialectic of Enlightenment

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[edit] Counter-Culture

I doubt that this intellectual book had any impact on the drug-saturated, illiterate 1960s counter-culture. The people who belonged to that counter-culture had two motivations: avoiding military service and experiencing as much pleasure as possible. They were listening, in a narcotized stupor, to their so-called "music," not reading Horkheimer, Adorno, and Marcuse. The statement in the article that this book had the effect of "inspiring especially the 1960s counter-culture," falsely represents the behavior of that time as a romantic, intellectual "movement." In actuality, it was the outward expression of extreme selfishness and egoism. Academics claim that it was a people's revolt, created by intellectuals, because that fits the nineteenth century model as propounded by Marx, and enhances their position. It was, however, not a physical manifestation of the intellectual ideas of reason and dialectic, but a physical manifestation of the will to live, coupled with an unquenchable thirst for pleasure. Future generations will be exposed only to the version that is disseminated by the academics and the media. What really occurred will be a well-kept secret, known only by those who had actual experience and are now passing into geriatric apathy. 66.82.9.88 16:24, 21 January 2007 (UTC)Aubrey Aubervilliers