What can I say?

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

Robert Musil's The Man Without Qualities...

it is endless ...

[P. G. Tipps]

That won't happen. Inauthenticity will now be the order of the day ad infinitum because the order that might one day have overthrown it has effectively been illegitimised and eviscerated by all powers that have been over the past 30 years. This is no mere matter of "party politics", as declared non grata on this 'ere forum, but one of a nation of yes persons, scrupulously crafted to do and say as they have been ordered and not ask awkward questions unless they're voicing the power structure and don't want to hear the answers.

Don't disagree with much of that ... it's just finding a system where employees can say what they believe to be true to employers and still stay in a job or have their careers unaffected. or even enhanced.

After all, the most successful managers surround themselves with thought-provoking critics not career-conscious sycophants.

Much of modern management has something in common with Maoism. imv. I suppose the better news is that any honest mavericks today just tend to disappear from the workplace and not from life itself!

To return to the topic directly, (or even remotely) set the R3 presenters free and just let them be themselves, for goodness sake!

[Richard Barrett]

it is endless ...

... especially in the sense of being unfinished/unfinishable; and beautiful, in a way possibly not appealing to all, in gradually slowing down as it asymptotically approaches a historical dénouement that you know isn't going to happen. Quite what relevance it has to the present subject, however, escapes me completely.

As for Marcuse, yes indeed, his pessimistic outlook probably didn't go down too well in the 1960s but he's certainly been proved right on many counts.