The apparatus defeats its own purpose if its purpose is to create a humane existence on the basis of a humanized nature. (Herbert Marcuse)

The apparatus defeats its own purpose if its purpose is to create a humane existence on the basis of a humanized nature.

Herbert Marcuse

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