Because thought has by now been perverted into the solving of assigned problems, even what is not assigned is processed like a problem.
Theodor AdornoA pencil and rubber are of more use to thought than a battalion of assistants. To happiness the same applies as to truth: one does not have it, but is in it.
Theodor AdornoArt as a whole is a riddle. Another way of putting this is to say that art expresses something while at the same time hiding it.
Theodor AdornoThought as such… is an act of negation, of resistance to that which is forced upon it; this is what thought has inherited from its archetype, the relation between labor and material. Today, when ideologues tend more than ever to encourage thought to be positive, they cleverly note that positivity runs precisely counter to thought, and that it takes friendly persuasion by social authority to accustom thought to positivity.
Theodor Adorno