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God is Love!
Minus The Bear
These Arms are Snakes
Desaparecidos
Botch
Shellac
Slint
Squarepusher
Angels of Light
The Swans
Johnny Mother Fucking Cash
Leonard Cohen
Karate
Cursive
Her Space Holiday
Blonde Redhead
Criteria
The For Carnatiom
Denali
Engine Down
Dismemberment Plan
Edith Frost
Elliot Smith
old jimmy eat world
Murder By Death
Red Animal War
Mogwai
things that go OONZ
Late Industrial society has increased rather than reduced the need for parasitical and alienated functions. Advertising, public relations, indoctrination, planned obsolescence are no longer unproductive overhead costs, but rather elements of basic production costs. In order to be effective, such production of socially necessary waste requires continuous rationalization - the relentless utilization of advanced techniques and science. Consequently, a rising standard of living is the almost unavoidable by-product of politically manipulated industrial society, once a certain level of back labor creates an increasing surplus-product which, weather privately or centrally appropriated and distributed, allows diversion of productivity. As long as this constellation prevails, it reduces the uses-value of freedom; there is no reason to insist on self-determination if the administered life is the comfortable and even the “good†life. This is the rational and material ground for the unification of opposites, for one dimensional political behavior. On this ground, the transcending political forces within a society are arrested, and qualitative change appears possible only as change from without. -- One Dimensional Man - Herbet Marcuse