I think of thinkers
who describe other sides
of the old stories
and the new talk
who observe what is there
as new and notice something
other than is accepted and
put that into reality
Precisely this responding
to what is already there
is originality
or the illusion of it
In an earlier time
I would have been such a thinker
but now it is of no use
in the easy lives
of well-to-do citizens, no use
to outcasts, no use
to outsiders, no use
to my heirs
May 5, 2023
May 5, 2023 at 3:25 AM UTC
I think of thinkers
who describe other sides
of the old stories
and the new talk
who observe what is there
as new and notice something
other than is accepted and
put that into reality
Precisely this responding
to what is already there
is originality
or the illusion of it
In an earlier time
I would have been such a thinker
but now it is of no use
in the easy lives
of well-to-do citizens, no use
to outcasts, no use
to outsiders, no use
to my heirs
Consumer society
"One-Dimensional Man. Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society" (1964, Herbert Marcuse)
Collections "The light of words" and "Life line"
