“The avant-garde and the beatniks share in the function of entertaining without endangering the good conscience of the men of good will.”

— Herbert Marcuse, book One-Dimensional Man

Source: One-Dimensional Man (1964), p. 70

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German philosopher, sociologist, and political theorist 1898–1979

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