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Fear and destructiveness are the major emotional sources of fascism, eros belongs mainly to democracy.

— Theodor Adorno The Authoritarian Personality (1950)

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Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.

Minima Moralia (1951)

Advancing bourgeois society liquidates memory, time, recollection as irrational leftovers of the past.

Was bedeutet Aufarbeitung der Vergangenheit (1959)

Jazz is the false liquidation of art — instead of utopia becoming reality it disappears from the picture.

The departmentalization of mind is a means of abolishing mind where it is not exercised ex officio, under contract.

The dressing up and puffing up of the individual erases the lineaments of protest.

On the Fetish Character in Music and the Regression of Listening (1938)

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Edward Whittemore Nile Shadows (1983)

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