Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling It appears Colin Kaepernick’s controversial refusal to stand at professional football games during the National Anthem, in protest of “a flag that oppresses black people,” is exactly what Herbert Marcuse warned about. A social theorist, philosopher, and political activist, who escaped Nazi Germany and fled to the United States where he remained, Herbert Marcuse believed that intellectual freedom would indeed mean the restoration of individual thought now absorbed by mass communication and indoctrination. What’s more, he observed how the mass media in America was compressing and leveling culture and reality, even class structure, as reflected in...
