Magic’s communal participation gave way to priestly class domination

Evidence

But even though, despite all submission, the savage nomad still participated in the magic which determined the lines of that submission, and clothed himself as his quarry in order to stalk it, in later times intercourse with spirits and submission were assigned to different classes: the power is on the one side, and obedience on the other. For the vanquished (whether by alien tribes or by their own cliques), the recurrent, eternally similar natural processes become the rhythm of labor according to the beat of cudgel and whip which resounds in every barbaric drum and every monotonous ritual. — Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment, 43

Categorization

• XREF: The ‘rhythm of labor to the beat of cudgel and whip’ prefigures the culture-industry critique of standardized, drudgery-mirroring entertainment in the next chapter. — connects to: Art preserves magic’s self-enclosed enclave even as it renounces magical influence; Secular institutions achieved large-scale cooperation by usurping religion’s community-building role
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Art preserves magic’s self-enclosed enclave even as it renounces magical influence; Secular institutions achieved large-scale cooperation by usurping religion’s community-building role

Broader Connections

• Secular institutions achieved large-scale cooperation by usurping religion’s community-building role #corroborates (0.78)