Sunday, April 18, 2004

"Thought, having lost its autonomy, no longer trusts itself to understand reality, in freedom, for its own sake...The socialization of mind keeps it boxed in, isolated in a glass case, as long as society itself is imprisoned. As thought earlier internalized the duties exacted from without, today it has assimilated to itself its integration into the surrounding apparatus, and is thus condemned even before the economic and political verdicts on it come fully into force."
Theodor Adorno, Minima Moralia.