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(...)That the forces of production and the relations of production are one nowadays, and that one could immediately construe society from the standpoint of the productive forces alone, says that the current society is socially necessary appearance. It is socially necessary because in fact previously separated moments of the social process, which living human beings incarnate, are being brought into a kind of overall equivalence. Material production, distribution, consumption are administered in common. Their borders, which once separated from inside the total process of externally separated spheres, and thereby respected that which was qualitatively different, are melting away. Everything is one. The totality of the process of mediation, in truth that of the exchange-principle, produces a second and deceptive immediacy. It makes it possible for that which is separate and antagonistic to be, against its own appearance, forgotten or to be repressed from consciousness. This consciousness of society is however an illusion, because it represents the consequences of technological and organizational homogenization, but nonetheless fails to see that this homogenization is not truly rational, but remains itself subordinated itself to a blind, irrational nomothetism [Gesetzmaessigkeit: lawfulness, juridicality]. No truly total subject of society yet exists. The mere appearance ought to be formulated as follows, that everything socially existent today is so thoroughly mediated, that even the moment of mediation is itself distorted by the totality. There is no standpoint outside of the whole affair which can be referred to, from which the ghost could be called by its name; the lever can be deployed only by means of its own incoherence. (...) The false identity between the constitution of the world and its inhabitants through the total expansion of technics is leading in the direction of the confirmation of the relations of production, whose true beneficiaries one searches for in vain, just as proletarians have become invisible. The self-realization of the system in relation to everyone, even functionaries, has reached a limit. It has turned into that fatality, which finds its expression in the current situation, to use Freud's words, in free-floating angst; free-floating, because it can no longer be fixed on living beings, people or classes. The only relationships ultimately realized between people, however, are those buried under the relations of production. This is why the overwhelming organization of things remains at the same time its own ideology, virtually powerless. As impenetrable as the bane [Bann] is, it's only a spell [Bann]...

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[NetzKaiser]

Kann man dass auch spannender lesen? Oder ist es wichtig, dass man den Eindruck bekommt, dass nen Pastor ne Predigt hält?

Und dann diese Sprache an sich: wer ist der Adressat? Doch bestimmt nicht die Allgemeinheit, oder? Schätze dass das nur von nen sehr kleinen Kreis von Insidern verstanden wird.

Und ob es dann für youtube geeignet ist, ist fraglich.

[gstyle77]

Im Internet ist die Nische der Mainstream.

Seine Existenz verändert die Konstellation des Ganzen.

Es klingt fast so als ob du Menschen vor den geheimen Reden

(da nicht öffentlich sinnvoll?) der Experten beschützen möchtest.

Dem pauschalen Zuschauer es nicht zumuten oder schlimmer nicht zuzutrauen die gedanken adornos verstehen zu können halte ich für

gefährich.

[NetzKaiser]

Hbe jetzt das Video "Adorno v.s. Gehlen" gehört und jetzt wird es klarer.