All science and technique rest on forgetting the suffering they overcome

Evidence

But perennial domination over nature, medical and non-medical techniques, are made possible only by the process of oblivion. The loss of memory is a transcendental condition for science. All objectification is a forgetting. — Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment, 212

Categorization

• XREF: Connects directly to the reader’s stated theme — Adorno’s domination-of-nature genealogy is the theoretical root of the culture industry’s pacification argument. — connects to: Active forgetting distorts a people’s self-understanding as it blunts pain — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Democracy in Black: How Race Still…, 123

Broader Connections

• Active forgetting distorts a people’s self-understanding as it blunts pain #expands (0.85) — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Democracy in Black, 123