“Just as in Nietzsche’s day educated philistines believed in progress, the unfaltering elevation of the masses and the greatest possible happiness for the greatest possible number, so today they believe, without quite knowing it themselves, in the opposite, the revocation of 1789, the incorrigibility of human nature, the anthropological impossibility of happiness – in other words, that the workers are too well-off. The profound insights of the day before yesterday have been reduced to the ultimate in banality.”
– Theodor W. Adorno, Minima Moralia, 120
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