The more technology enables peace, the harder society is organized against it

Evidence

Faced with the possibility of pacification on the grounds of its technical and intellectual achievements, the mature industrial society closes itself against this alternative. Operationalism, in theory and practice, becomes the theory and practice of containment. Underneath its obvious dynamics, this society is a thoroughly static system of life: self-propelling in its oppressive productivity and in its beneficial coordination. — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 144

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines operationalism-as-containment and the paradox of a dynamic society that is structurally static.
• XREF: Directly connects to attention-economy debates: productivity growth that only deepens administered consciousness rather than freeing it. — connects to: Technological rationality has grown stronger while society grows more irrational — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the…, 47; Advanced technological society creates its own new culture of silence. — Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 70; Technology can increase human weakness even as it increases power — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the…, 822

Broader Connections

• Technological rationality has grown stronger while society grows more irrational #corroborates (0.85) — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 47
• Advanced technological society creates its own new culture of silence. #expands (0.78) — Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 70
• Technology can increase human weakness even as it increases power #expands (0.75) — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 822