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Healthy, Wealthy, & Wise

On The Digital One-Dimensional Man

Marcuse, Bernays, and the Machinery of Manufactured Desire

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Richard L. Johnson
Aug 24, 2025
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“None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free. - Goethe

The Spectacle of Choice

You scroll because you’re bored, you’re bored because you’re addicted, and you’re addicted because someone figured out how to monetize your dopamine before you figured out how to defend your soul. We live in an age of unprecedented freedom. We…

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