All civilization requires a certain level of repression, and we should ask, as #Marcuse perceptively asked himself: “But how much repression?”
I have taken it upon myself to provide a tentative answer to this most pressing question, locating it within the framework of a “hedonistic” & polymorphous perverse form of Gnosticism that is based on a socioeconomic model that is egalitarian and social democratic via a constitutionally revised commitment to a set of universal economic guarantees.
Of course this is based on the presupposition that our society as a whole lacks the requisite consciousness to implement full-blown socialism. and the Leninist telescoping shortcut will only lead to a total collapse, which in all likelihood given the ignorant, regressive nature of at least 30 percent of the US electorate, would result in some form of Mad Max dystopian outcome.