{"id":116771,"date":"2018-09-10T12:00:25","date_gmt":"2018-09-10T11:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=116771"},"modified":"2018-08-15T12:02:55","modified_gmt":"2018-08-15T11:02:55","slug":"eros-and-civilization-a-love-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2018\/09\/eros-and-civilization-a-love-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Eros and Civilization (A Love Story)"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><em>A presentation by <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UC0_s36cFgVLQGg1Vv7wtNcA\" >Thomas Altfather Good<\/a> based on the book by Herbert Marcuse.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>According to Freud, humans denied their basic impulses in order to build a civilization. They traded happiness for security and it was, by and large, a fair exchange. Freud called this the Reality Principle. Herbert Marcuse argued that a ruling elite has exploited the Reality Principle for personal gain, gradually constructing a stratified society based on the &#8220;logic of domination&#8221; &#8212; the masses are rewarded for their servitude with a relative affluence. Marcuse called the system of exploitation and (marginal) compensation the Performance Principle. Marcuse believed it is a trap, a prison. He argued that the ideology of the elite, the Performance Principle itself, must be exposed &#8212; and overcome.<\/p>\n<p>httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=cDlckdYbA28<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Freud, humans denied their basic impulses in order to build a civilization. They traded happiness for security and it was, by and large, a fair exchange. Freud called this the Reality Principle. Herbert Marcuse argued that a ruling elite has exploited the Reality Principle for personal gain, gradually constructing a stratified society based on the &#8220;logic of domination&#8221; &#8212; the masses are rewarded for their servitude with a relative affluence. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[168],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-depth-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116771\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}