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Dialectic of Enlightenment

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Is Enlightenment Totalitarian Closure?

I don't even like the word totalitarian, so I wish they didn't use it, but because it erases the difference between those two systems. It just seems so wrong to me to think that what we're suffering from is an excess of enlightenment rationality. The notion that we got those because of a dialectic of enlightenment, I just find that borderline offensive.

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