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Conformity (n.) in thinking and in living is one fear wearing two coats: the dread of departing from the facts is the dread of social deviation.
Critical theory (n.) is theory that is 'critical' in that it seeks human emancipation.
The Culture industry (n.) is the films, magazines and radio which crank out sterilized, watered down, innocuous media products, palatable for mass consumption with the aim of making everything uniform.
The Dialectic of enlightenment (n.) runs in two directions at once: myth is already enlightenment, and enlightenment reverts to mythology.
Disenchantment (n.) is the uprooting of animism: on the road to modern science, human beings threw meaning overboard and swapped the concept for the formula.
Domination (n.) is bought with estrangement: the more power people gain over something, the more foreign it becomes to them.
Enlightenment (n.) set out to free people from fear and make them masters — and the wholly enlightened earth now glows with triumphant calamity.
Enlightenment (n.) is totalitarian: whatever fails the test of calculability and utility falls under suspicion, and every resistance it meets only makes it stronger.
Enlightenment (n.) treats things the way a dictator treats people: it knows them exactly as far as it can manipulate them.
Information (n.) arriving in a flood, alongside brand-new amusements, makes people smarter and more stupid at once.
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Magic (n.) is bloody untruth — but at least it does not dress up domination as the pure truth lying beneath the world.