Auschwitz begins wherever someone looks at a slaughterhouse and thinks: they’re only animals.

Theodor W. Adorno
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  1. What can oppose the decline of the west is not a resurrected culture but the utopia that is silently contained in the image of its decline.

  2. In so far as the culture industry arouses a feeling of well-being that the world is precisely in that order suggested by the culture industry, the substitute gratification which it prepares for human beings cheats them out of the same happiness which it deceitfully projects.

  3. The darkening of the world makes the irrationality of art rational: radically darkened art.

  4. Art is the social antithesis of society, not directly deducible from it.

  5. Philosophy, which once seemed outmoded, remains alive because the moment of its realization was missed. The summary judgement that it had merely interpreted the world is itself crippled by resignation before reality, and becomes a defeatism of reason after the transformation of the world failed....

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