People’s daily habits can maintain domination despite sincere stated commitment to freedom

Evidence

For example, economic freedom to sell one’s labor power in order to compete on the labor market submits the individual to the slavery of an irrational economic system; political freedom to vote for generally indistinguishable representatives of the same system is but a delusive ratification of a nondemocratic political system; intellectual freedom of expression is ineffectual when the media either co-opt and defuse, or distort and suppress, oppositional ideas, and when the image-makers shape public opinion so that it is hostile or immune to oppositional thought and action. — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 45 (#expands, via linked claim)

At its most advanced stage, domination functions as administration, and in the overdeveloped areas of mass consumption, the administered life becomes the good life of the whole, in the defense of which the opposites are united. This is the pure form of domination. Conversely, its negation appears to be the pure form of negation. All content seems reduced to the one abstract demand for the end of domination—the only truly revolutionary exigency, and the event that would validate the achievements of industrial civilization. — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 882 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Sustained domination produces habitual adjustment rather than rebellion among subjects.; Freedom can be defined through domination rather than through respect for others. — Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended, 164; Freedom can be reconceived as non-domination rather than non-interference or self-mastery — Philip Pettit, Republicanism: A Theory of Freedom and…, 1207 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Sustained domination produces habitual adjustment rather than rebellion among subjects. #corroborates (0.92)
• The system’s celebrated freedoms function as instruments of domination #expands (0.90) — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 45
• Administered life appears as the good life so domination looks like freedom #expands (0.88) — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 882
• Freedom can be reconceived as non-domination rather than non-interference or self-mastery #qualifies (0.75) — Philip Pettit, Republicanism, 1207
• People use small self-imposed constraints to avoid confronting their freedom #complicates (0.74) — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 504
• Freedom can be defined through domination rather than through respect for others. #expands (0.72) — Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended, 164