Culture’s reason emerges only by deviating from prevailing rationality.

Evidence

It is only through deviation from prevalent rationality that culture displays its ratio. Such hopes, however, are rooted in a state of consciousness on the part of administrators which is by no means simply to be taken for granted: it would depend upon their critical independence from the power and the spirit of a consumer society identical with the administrated world itself. — Theodor W. Adorno, The Culture Industry, 175

Categorization

• APHORISMS: ‘It is only through deviation from prevalent rationality that culture displays its ratio’ reads as durable critical wisdom about the condition of cultural value.