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nal dictatorship=2C exercised by those who are supposed to have acquired kn=
owledge of the real Good. The answer has since become obsolete: knowledge o=
f the available means for creating a humane existence for all is no longer =
confined to a privileged elite. The facts are all too open=2C and the indiv=
idual consciousness would safely arrive at them if it were not methodically=
 arrested and diverted. The distinction between rational and irrational aut=
hority=2C between repression and surplus-repression=2C can be made and veri=
fied by the individuals themselves. That they cannot make this distinction =
now does not mean that they cannot learn to make it once they are given the=
 opportunity to do so. Then the course of trial and error becomes a rationa=
l course in freedom. Utopias are susceptible to unrealistic blueprints=3B t=
he conditions for a free society are not. They are a matter of reason." [15=
9]

mp



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> From: mpiscioneri at hotmail.com
> To: theory-frankfurt-school at srcf.ucam.org
> Date: Thu=2C 28 Aug 2008 09:59:48 +0000
> Subject: Re: [FRA:] theology/critical theory
>=20
>=20
> Dear List n Philip=2C
> =20
> from the quality of the questions guiding your inquiry=2C it appears to m=
e at least you are no novice :-). In particular:>If so=2C could religion be=
 seen in a similar dialectical light?=20
> =20
> This is a VERY important issue in the pragmatics (shall we say) of keepin=
g the utopian/critical "instinct" a burning. I have to be honest=2C I HATE =
hope/hopefulness...it's the wellspring of Reason's cunning. BUT=2C given th=
e way the world IS (not how I'd like to think it COULD be) do the emancipat=
ory deficits generated by the inevitable inversion of a hopeful "critical" =
practice (addiction to the social psychological drug of bittersweetness) ou=
tweigh the strange resistance to fascism that "hope" offers?=20
> =20
> In the darkest hours of the last ten years of Bush Inc (and its despicabl=
e gnomish Australian equivalent let it be said) and the oh so close slide i=
nto the abyss=2C "certain" (certainly not all) elements in the sphere of re=
ligion provided a basis for some sort of "morality" and resistance. Again s=
peaking to the Australian experience=2C during the recent Australian Conser=
vative's regime=2C often religious voices were the most effective voices of=
 dissent that were heard. =20
> =20
> MP
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