The fundamental idea of Herbert Marcuse’s One Dimensional Man is his express wish to get out of the clutches of science and technology which has over the years has carried its vengeance on the human society. The technology of advanced industrial societies has enabled the human beings fight sigh of the conflicts of dissenting voices by assimilating all those who in the earlier form and texture of social order gave ample voices of dissent and diverse dimension of human beings and thus creating a universe of unity in diversity.

Technology does this partly creating a state of material affluence and prosperity in a plethora of ways. It was a good riddance of sorts. Freedom from material wants which both Marx and Marcuse himself took for granted as the necessary precondition of all sorts of freedoms in spirit and letter has drastically transformed into an agency or vehicle for producing to a state of servitude to the culture materialistic propensity, a servitude which has never been in evidence in human history and a departure from humanities.

By fulfilling and catering to man’s rapacious needs, their reasons for dissent and protest are brutally subverted and thus the become the easy tools and instruments of the dominating system, a system of power over the people.

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