Herbert Marcuse- Marcuse, Herbert. “Liberation from the Affluent Society.” July 27th 2016 The more money you make, the more likely you are to spend more. For us to be able to survive in our modern society we are enslaved to working every day to survive or live a certain lifestyle. The debate for the need to raise the middle class always seems to forget the lower class, for every election in North America we hear politicians argue about strengthening the middle class. Can a society have a middle class and not have a lower class, why are we stuck in this political dilemma and is there a chance we can be liberated from this dilemma? This is discussion tries to understand the idea of liberation, because liberation serves to focus on the need
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The article focuses on women and the idea of equality, which tends to differ on paper and reality. As of the time of writing it should be noted that De Beauvoir’s work was staged immediately after the war. However after the war, we see most women as history teaches us, were designated to being house wives. They were never on the same level as men not until “French women were finally granted a reasonably wide range of rights, most critically the right to vote and the right to hold office” (Pg. 30) but with these rights to women still could not have stepped up their status in the public. The culture of women being seen as inferior is still in place and this was pointed out in the reading “Woman rarely approach genius…because they are socialized to allow others to judge them, rather than to judge the world for themselves”. (Pg. 39) Freedom is written on paper but the continuous slavery faced by women suggest modern society has not changed much, because a shocking description about feminism is, you need to be a woman to become a feminist. This is argument that is highly flawed, due to the conceptual idea that if one believes in the equality of the sexes one is a feminist. Equality provides freedom not just to women but to Men, just as Hooks suggests “embedded in the commitment to feminist revolution is the challenge to love” (pg.26) The ability of a woman to achieve status of ‘genius’ impacts the general society with the likes of Adele, an inspiring younger generation and changing the world to be focused on women and their
The article focuses on women and the idea of equality, which tends to differ on paper and reality. As of the time of writing it should be noted that De Beauvoir’s work was staged immediately after the war. However after the war, we see most women as history teaches us, were designated to being house wives. They were never on the same level as men not until “French women were finally granted a reasonably wide range of rights, most critically the right to vote and the right to hold office” (Pg. 30) but with these rights to women still could not have stepped up their status in the public. The culture of women being seen as inferior is still in place and this was pointed out in the reading “Woman rarely approach genius…because they are socialized to allow others to judge them, rather than to judge the world for themselves”. (Pg. 39) Freedom is written on paper but the continuous slavery faced by women suggest modern society has not changed much, because a shocking description about feminism is, you need to be a woman to become a feminist. This is argument that is highly flawed, due to the conceptual idea that if one believes in the equality of the sexes one is a feminist. Equality provides freedom not just to women but to Men, just as Hooks suggests “embedded in the commitment to feminist revolution is the challenge to love” (pg.26) The ability of a woman to achieve status of ‘genius’ impacts the general society with the likes of Adele, an inspiring younger generation and changing the world to be focused on women and their