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“ On the way from mythology to logistics thought has lost the element of self-reflection and today machinery disables men even as it nurtures them. ”

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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.

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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.

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

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

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