Reason becomes a mere instrument of the economic apparatus once consciousness is removed.

Evidence

The technical process, into which the subject has objectified itself after being removed from the consciousness, is free of the ambiguity of mythic thought as of all meaning altogether, because reason itself has become the mere instrument of the all-inclusive economic apparatus. It serves as a general tool, useful for the manufacture of all other tools, firmly directed toward its end, as fateful as the precisely calculated movement of material production, whose result for mankind is beyond all calculation. — Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment, 47

Categorization

• XREF: The instrumental-reason premise grounds the culture industry argument that entertainment is manufactured to serve the economic apparatus. — connects to: Reason itself becomes an instrument of domination in late industrial society — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the…, 34; Escaping monologic reason requires replacing philosophy of consciousness with communicative rationality — Alex Callinicos, Against Postmodernism: A Marxist…, 383; Reason works as conscious projection that holds subject and object apart. (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Reason itself becomes an instrument of domination in late industrial society #corroborates (0.85) — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 34
• Escaping monologic reason requires replacing philosophy of consciousness with communicative rationality #responds-to (0.80) — Alex Callinicos, Against Postmodernism, 383
• Industrial progress destroys the conception of the person as a bearer of reason #expands (0.80)
• Reason works as conscious projection that holds subject and object apart. #expands (0.75)