Thought itself is a revolt against bowing to immediate things

Evidence

“The effort implied in the concept of thought itself, as the counterpart of passive contemplation, is negative already, a revolt against being importuned to bow to every immediate thing.” — Anna Kornbluh, Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late…, 619

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: Compresses the entire defense of mediation into one formulation: thinking-as-negation against the pull of the immediate. Dense enough to sit with.
• XREF: Directly supports the reader’s goal of articulating a defense of mediation as politically necessary — this is the theoretical keystone. — connects to: Goebbels sought to displace individual thought rather than win arguments — Tim Wu, The Attention Merchants, 425