The hardest hit, as everywhere, are those who have no choice.

Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength.

Tact is the discrimination of differences. It consists in conscious deviations.

Newness only becomes mere evil in its totalitarian format, where all the tension between individual and society, that once gave rise to the category of the new, is dissipated. Today the appeal to newness, of no matter what kind, provided only that it is archaic enough, has become universal, the omnipresent medium of false mimesis. The decomposition of the subject is consummated in his self-abandonment to an ever-changing sameness.

The film has succeeded in transforming subjects so indistinguishably into social functions, that those wholly encompassed, no longer aware of any conflict, enjoy their own dehumanization as something human, as the joy of warmth. The total interconnectedness of the culture industry, omitting nothing, is one with total social delusion.

The specific is not exclusive: it lacks the aspiration to totality.

Happiness is obsolete: uneconomic.