One-Dimensional Man
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CORE DEFINITION
Advanced industrial society, through consumerism and technological rationality, successfully suppresses the negative, critical, and transcendent dimensions within people. People become solely concerned with material comfort, losing the ability to resist and imagine alternative ways of living, thus becoming 'one-dimensional' conformists.
SCAFFOLDING EFFECT
Reduce cognitive load
- A wake-up call: When you feel that 'buying, buying, buying' is happiness and that there is nothing else to life, be wary that you may have become a one-dimensional person.
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Advanced industrial society uses consumerism and technological rationality to appease and assimilate opposition, eliminating the negative, critical, and transcendent dimensions, leaving people with only a one-dimensional mindset that affirms the status quo and loses the ability to imagine alternative lives.
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