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“The mechanism for reproducing life, for dominating and for destroying it, is exactly the same, and…”
“The mechanism for reproducing life, for dominating and for destroying it, is exactly the same, and…”

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“The mechanism for reproducing life, for dominating and for destroying it, is exactly the same, and accordingly industry, state and advertising are amalgamated. The old exaggeration of sceptical Liberals, that war was a business, has come true: state power has shed even the appearance of independence from particular interests in profit; always in their service really, it now also places itself there ideologically. Every laudatory mention of the chief contractor in the destruction of cities, helps to earn it the good name that will secure it the best commissions in their rebuilding.”

Theodor W. Adorno, Minima Moralia, 33

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