The most effective suppression of liberation works by implanting false needs.

Evidence

The most effective and enduring form of warfare against liberation is the implanting of material and intellectual needs that perpetuate obsolete forms of the struggle for existence. — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 112

Categorization

• XREF: Directly parallels how social-media platforms engineer needs for likes and notifications that perpetuate attention-harvesting. — connects to: True sublimation preserves awareness of repression and the need for liberation. — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the…, 335; Advanced society suffocates the very needs that demand liberation while sustaining repressive ones; Satisfying false needs yields euphoria that blocks recognition of the systemic disease. — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the…, 114 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Advanced society suffocates the very needs that demand liberation while sustaining repressive ones #corroborates (0.90)
• True sublimation preserves awareness of repression and the need for liberation. #complicates (0.80) — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 335
• Satisfying false needs yields euphoria that blocks recognition of the systemic disease. #corroborates (0.75) — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 114
• Identity adopted as liberation can harden into a new form of imprisonment #expands (0.72) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1078