Organizational integration and effectiveness necessarily require self-alienation

Evidence

Organizations of convenience in an antagonistic society must necessarily pursue particular ends; they do this at the expense of the interests of other groups. Therefore, obduracy and reification necessarily result. If such organizations continued to occupy a subordinate position within which they were totally open and honest towards their membership and its direct desires, they would be incapable of any action. The more firmly integrated they are, the greater is their prospect for asserting themselves in relation to others. — Theodor W. Adorno, The Culture Industry, 151

Categorization

Category: Causal Relationships

• XREF: This parallels the administered-culture/free-time paradox the reader tracks: honesty and responsiveness kill efficacy in an antagonistic society.