Ticket-thinking remobilizes defused anti-Semitic impulses into persecution

Evidence

The reaction against the Jews is heightened into a true object for persecution—an object of instinctual release—by the political ticket. The “elements of anti-Semitism,” which are based on experience but are defused by the loss of subjective experience shown in ticket-thinking, are remobilized by the ticket. Already proved to be inadequate, these elements give the neo-anti-Semite a bad conscience, and thereby lead to insatiable evil. — Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment, 164

Categorization

• XREF: The ‘ticket’ mechanism directly parallels the standardized, pre-digested thinking the culture industry chapter attributes to mass entertainment. — connects to: Persecution strengthens the pathological relationship of the excluded; The ticket mentality itself carries the same anger against difference as anti-Semitism does; Defeating fascism left its root causes intact beneath a ticket mentality — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 703 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Defeating fascism left its root causes intact beneath a ticket mentality #expands (0.85) — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 703
• Individual frustrations explain spontaneous prejudice while collective processes explain organized persecution #complicates (0.78) — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice, 1611