After reading "Chpt 6, pp. 157-194 (8th ed. 151-186)" excerpts from Herbert Marcuse''s One Dimensional Man, consider ways in which you are defined by the economic system.
First, write a word or phrase that describes part of your identity (e.g., I am a good mother).
Second, describe how that characteristic is "commodified" (made sellable/consumable) and/or shaped by the current economic system (e.g., If I buy the $60 car seat instead of the $300 one, I am a worse mother even though safety ratings are marginally different).
Third, explain the extent to which you free yourself from the values placed on that characteristic by the media/productive forces that commodified it (e.g., I justify my car seat purchase to myself, yet still consider it in a recurring definition of "good mother"?).