"At this point in the positivistic confrontation with the new lineaments of dogmatism, the inverse side of such a critique of ideology is revealed. It is correct in removing the veil of a false rationalization of what has been derationalized in value ethics such as Scheler’s and Hartman’s philosophy and in referring ideal objects back to the subjectivity of needs and inclinations, value judgments and commitments. But the result of its labors is monstrous enough: from the mainstream of rationality the pollutants, the sewage of emotionality, are filtered off and locked away hygienically in a storage basin - an imposing mass of subjective value-qualities. Every single value appears as a meaningless agglomeration of meaning, stamped solely with the stigma of irrationality, so that the priority of one value over the other - thus the persuasiveness which a value claims with respect to action - simply cannot be rationally justified. Thus on this level the critique ideology involuntary furnishes the proof that the progress of a rationalization limited in terms of empirical science to technical control is paid for with the corresponding growth of a mass of irrationality in the domain on praxis itself. For action still demands an orientation, as it did before. But now it is dissected into a rational implementation of techniques and strategies and an irrational choice of so-called value-systems. The price paid for economy in the selection of means is a decisionism set wholly free in the selection of the highest-level goals."