Modern fears and execrated traits encode prior violent stages of social progress.

Evidence

Present-day fears and idiosyncracies, derided and execrated character traits, may be deciphered as the marks of the violent onset of this or that stage of progress in human development. — Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment, 82

Categorization

• QUESTION: Worth chasing: which specific modern ‘idiosyncrasies’ can actually be traced to identifiable historical transitions? Adorno gestures but gives no method for the decipherment.
• XREF: connects to: Technological and social progress produces psychological regression and instinctual fixation.; The fear of unbounded individual violence drove the creation of social science; Populations adapt to pervasive violence until it seems ordinary (+1 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Technological and social progress produces psychological regression and instinctual fixation.; The fear of unbounded individual violence drove the creation of social science; Populations adapt to pervasive violence until it seems ordinary (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• The fear of unbounded individual violence drove the creation of social science #exemplifies (0.85)
• Populations adapt to pervasive violence until it seems ordinary #expands (0.75)