Eric Phetteplace’s Reviews > One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society > Status Update

Enjoying this pessimistic work in same way as Dialectic of Enlightenment, bleak & well written. The aesthetics chapter is GREAT. Still, as with all cynical theory, it feels like it wants to say things are worse now (we had options before! now we're stuck!) but lacks any relative analysis to establish this. Um feudalism was ruhl bad. & what if art was always desublimation? Missing Weber citations re: rationalization.