So the experience of death is turned into that of the exchange of functionaries, and anything in the natural relationship to death that is not wholly absorbed into the social one is turned over to hygiene. In being seen as no more than the exit of a living creature from the social combine, death has been domesticated: dying merely confirms the absolute irrelevance of the natural organism in face of the social absolute.
Theodor AdornoFascism is itself less 'ideological', in so far as it openly proclaims the principle of domination that is elsewhere concealed.
Theodor AdornoThe good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property: his autonomous being is modelled on material power.
Theodor AdornoThe thought that murders the wish that fathered it will be overtaken by the revenge of stupidity
Theodor Adorno