Falsified immediacy is how the established order disposes of victims

Evidence

The gesture of the unthinking That’s-how-it-is is the exact means by which the world dispatches each of its victims, and the transcendental agreement inherent in irony becomes ridiculous in face of the real unanimity of those it ought to attack. Pitted against the deadly seriousness of total society, which has absorbed the opposing voice, the impotent objection earlier quashed by irony, there is now only the deadly seriousness of comprehended truth. — Theodor W. Adorno, Minima Moralia, 230

Categorization

Category: Contrarian or Surprising Claims

• XREF: The fate of the ‘impotent objection’ tracks the dialektik of Aufklärung’s administered society.