Conditioned populations supply the mass base that approves of aggression produced by industrial societies.
Evidence
The syndrome of denial and projection and unleashing of aggressive energies was a familiar one for the Freudian Herbert Marcuse, who constantly argued that advanced industrial societies unleashed ever more lethal destructiveness which finds a mass base of approval in those who have been conditioned to approve of aggression. — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 61
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Advanced industrial society channels erotic and aggressive instincts into socially controlled outlets. — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the…, 61; Industrial society appears rational precisely because it perpetuates the danger