one-dimensional thought

is the idea that the entertainment and information industry carry with them prescribed attitudes and habits, certain intellectual and emotional reactions which indoctrinate and manipulate and promote a false consciousness which is immune against its falsehood.

The means of communication, the irresistible output of the entertainment and information industry carry with them prescribed attitudes and habits, certain intellectual and emotional reactions which bind the consumers to the producers and, through the latter to the whole social system. The products indoctrinate and manipulate... they promote a false consciousness which is immune against its falsehood. . . Thus emerges a pattern of one-dimensional thought and behavior. Herbert Marcuse

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one dimensional thought