> You need an argument for "what can we do with Adorno that we could not do without Adorno?" This is an interesting idea. It reduces all human knowledge to thi

> You need an argument for "what can we do with Adorno that we could not do without Adorno?" This is an interesting idea. It reduces all human knowledge to things that help you achieve some goal, knowledge is something you 'do things' with. It's a really common position. It's how schools teach. It's how we define 'hard' knowledge as opposed to soft, wishy-washy stuff. It also is really convenient if you need a culture of employees - they don't need to think why they do things, or what they should do. The boss tells them, and the market tells the boss. So that's how you end up with the kind of headless monster capitalism that's cooking the world in CO2. Nobody's trained to think about the whys and whats. They can only think about the hows, and sometimes, problems simply aren't purely technical in nature. PS: that was a bit of a tangent, but I think philosophy isn't probably the best place to look for goal-oriented rationality.