Art’s sensual taboo makes dissonance reject false humaneness and side with reified consciousness.

Evidence

This development may well lead to an exacerbation of the sensual taboo, although it is sometimes difficult to distinguish how much this taboo is based on the law of form and how much it is simply due to failures of competence … Ultimately, the sensual taboo even extends to encompass the opposite of what is pleasing, because, even at the greatest distance, a sense of its specific negation is shared. To achieve this form of reaction, dissonance forces its way too close to its corollary, reconciliation; it rejects an apparent humaneness that is the ideology of inhumanity, and prefers to take sides with reified consciousness. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 683

Categorization

• DEFINE: Explains “sensual taboo” and the dialectical proximity of dissonance to reconciliation.
• DEEPTHINKING: The claim that apparent humaneness is itself the ideology of inhumanity is a paradigm-level inversion worth sitting with.