"By turning suffering into images, harsh and uncompromising though they are, it wounds the shame we feel in the presence of the victims. For these victimes are used to create something, works of art, that are thrown to the consumption of a world which destroyed them... The moral of this art, not to forget for a single instant, slithers into the abyss of its opposite. The aesthetic principle of stylization, and even the solemn prayer of the chorus, make an unthinkable fate appear to have had some meaning; it is transfigured, something of its horror removed. This alone does an injustice to the victims, yet no art which tried to evade them could confront the claims of justice."

-Theodor Adorno (Commitment)

-dystopian au

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-writer wants to write about something but ends up distustingly romanticizing it

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