Among today's adept practitioners, the lie has long since lost its honest function of misrepresenting reality. Nobody believes anybody, everyone is in the know. Lies are told only to convey to someone that one has no need either of him or his good opinion. The lie, once a liberal means of communication, has today become one of the techniques of insolence enabling each individual to spread around him the glacial atmosphere in whose shelter he can thrive.
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Theodor W. Adorno
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Aesthetic Theory
Dialectic of Enlightenment
Dialectic of Enlightenment: Philosophical Fragments
Essays on Music
Metaphysics: Concept and Problems
Minima Moralia: Reflections from a Damaged Life
Negative Dialectics
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