Content-indifferent sensation erodes judgement and drives catastrophic degeneration.

Evidence

Everything can, as the new, divested of itself, become pleasure, just as desensitized morphine addicts finally grab indiscriminately at any drug, including atropine. Sensation has submerged, together with differentiation between qualities, all judgement: it is really this that makes it an agent of catastrophic degeneration. — Theodor W. Adorno, Minima Moralia, 257

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: The atropine analogy — grabbing any drug when desensitized — condenses the entire logic of late-capitalist stimulus addiction into one image.
• XREF: connects to: Industrialized laughter represses fear by capitulating to power instead of escaping it — Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment, 110; When quantification destroys qualitative perception, bare sensation replaces experience. — Theodor W. Adorno, Minima Moralia: Reflections from…, 257; Singular attention thinking causes concrete human harm, not just inconvenience — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!: A Manifesto of the…, 205 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Extreme battlefield noise can annihilate thought and reduce a person to helpless reflex #exemplifies (0.85) — George Michelsen Foy, Zero Decibels, 424
• Singular attention thinking causes concrete human harm, not just inconvenience #expands (0.82) — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!, 205
• When quantification destroys qualitative perception, bare sensation replaces experience. #expands (0.80) — Theodor W. Adorno, Minima Moralia, 257
• Noise combines measurable harm with subjective disturbance #expands (0.70)