While It [tolerance] Is More Or Less

The Way In Which A Society Organizes The Life Of Its Members ... Is One "project" Of Realization Among Others. But Once The Project Has Become Operative In The Basic Institutions And Relations, It Tends To Become Exclusive And To Determine The Development Of The Society As A Whole.

This Mutual Dependencies No Longer The Dialectical Relationship Between Master And Servant, Which Has Been Broken In The Struggle For Mutual Recognition, But Rather A Vicious Circle Which Encloses Both The Master And The Servant. Do The Technicians Rule, Or Is Their Rule That Of The Others, Who Rely On The Technicians As Their Planners And Executors?

To The Degree To Which They Correspond To The Given Reality, Thought And Behavior Express A False Consciousness, Responding To And Contributing To The Preservation Of A False Order Of Facts. And This False Consciousness Has Become Embodied In The Prevailing Technical Apparatus Which In Turn Reproduces It.

Liberating Tolerance, Then, Would Mean Intolerance Against Movements From The Right, And Toleration Of Movements From The Left.

Technological Rationality Reveals Its Political Character As It Becomes The Great Vehicle Of Better Domination, Creating A Truely Totalitarian Universe In Which Society And Nature, Mind And Body Are Kept In A State Of Permanent Mobilization For The Defense Of This Universe.