Compliance becomes rational when goods and services abound

Evidence

Under such conditions, decline of freedom and opposition is not a matter of moral or intellectual deterioration or corruption. It is rather an objective societal process insofar as the production and distribution of an increasing quantity of goods and services make compliance a rational technological attitude. — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 228

Categorization

• DEFINE: Clarifies the core thesis that one-dimensionality is an objective process of technological rationality, not moral decay.
• XREF: Directly bridges to the reader’s stated purpose: loss of critical thought as a mechanical product of abundance, connecting to attention-economy critiques where convenience flattens agency. — connects to: Established regimes persist because compliance incentives and vested interests accrue over time — Robert B. McCalla, NATO’s persistence after the cold war, 114