“Pleasure always means not to think about anything, to forget suffering even where it is shown. Basically it is helplessness. It is flight; not, as is asserted, flight from a wretched reality, but from the last remaining thought of resistance.”
Theodor Adorno
Dialectic of Enlightenment: Philosophical Fragments
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