Modern administration abolishes the reflective hesitation that once mediated individual and general.

Evidence

But far from finding anything inimical in the prohibitions on thinking, the candidates – and all scientists are candidates for posts – feel relieved. Because thinking burdens them with a subjective responsibility which their objective position in the productive process does not allow them to meet, they renounce it, shiver a bit, and run to join their opponents. Dislike of thinking rapidly becomes incapacity for it: people who can effortlessly discover the most sophisticated statistical objections when it is a question of sabotaging a piece of knowledge, are unable to make ex cathedra the simplest predictions. They hit out at speculation and in it kill common sense. — Theodor W. Adorno, Minima Moralia, 151 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Renouncing thought under institutional pressure becomes an incapacity for it — Theodor W. Adorno, Minima Moralia: Reflections from…, 151; Reflective thought arises only at crisis moments and is usually suppressed. — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 985; The absence of conflict in normal people masks authority’s prior suppression of instinct (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Renouncing thought under institutional pressure becomes an incapacity for it #expands (0.85) — Theodor W. Adorno, Minima Moralia, 151
• The absence of conflict in normal people masks authority’s prior suppression of instinct #corroborates (0.78)
• Fixed rules detach moral actors from experience and adaptability. #qualifies (0.75)
• Reflective thought arises only at crisis moments and is usually suppressed. #exemplifies (0.72) — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 985