The Cold War, the "Unconscious," & the "Vigilant Self" (wasRe: Moon Pie)

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Tue Feb 15 15:51:13 PST 2000


Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:


>Hi Ted:
>
> >Aside from inversion of morality, Cold War anti-communism also displayed
> >reversal of reality, another hallmark of pathological cognition.
>
>The inversion of reality is a normal condition of capitalism: commodity
>fetishism.

Mmm, yeah, but as Adorno might say, it also contains a grain of truth: the relations between people *are* the relations between things. That may be an inversion of reality, but it also feels very real.

Doug



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