Everything about art has become problematic; its inner life, its relation to society, even its right to exist.
Theodor AdornoThe good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property: his autonomous being is modelled on material power.
Theodor AdornoToday self-consciousness no longer means anything but reflection on the ego as embarrassment, as realization of impotence: knowing that one is nothing.
Theodor Adorno