"Triviality is evil - triviality, that is, in……" — Theodor Adorno
"Triviality is evil - triviality, that is, in the form of consciousness and mind that adapts itself to the world as it is, that obeys the principle of inertia. And this principle of inertia truly is what is radically evil."
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Theodor Adorno
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