Administered needs cause individuals to identify with and submit to domination

Evidence

One-dimensional man does not know its true needs because its needs are not its own—they are administered, superimposed, and heteronomous; it is not able to resist domination, nor to act autonomously, for it identifies with public behavior and imitates and submits to the powers that be. — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 39

Categorization

• DEFINE: Core definition of one-dimensional man’s heteronomous needs and loss of autonomy.
• XREF: Connects to false/vital needs distinction elaborated in later passages; bridges to attention-economy critiques of manufactured desire. — connects to: Late capitalist life forces individuals to identify with the power that oppresses them — Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment, 116; Social precepts can become interiorized until external compulsion becomes unnecessary — Georg Simmel, The Sociology of Georg Simmel, 6435; Collective identity shifts personal goals toward the group’s welfare — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 548 (+14 more)

Broader Connections

• Sustained domination produces habitual adjustment rather than rebellion among subjects. #expands (0.78)
• Long domination produces adjustment to rather than rebellion #expands (0.78) — Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking Cooperative…, 2121
• Disciplinary power produces individuality rather than merely restricting it from outside #expands (0.75)
• Social precepts can become interiorized until external compulsion becomes unnecessary #expands (0.72) — Georg Simmel, The Sociology of Georg Simmel, 6435
• Collective identity shifts personal goals toward the group’s welfare #expands (0.72) — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 548
• Socially prescribed conduct can serve as scaffolding for self-realization rather than constraint #complicates (0.72) — Saba Mahmood, Politics of Piety, 1027