adorno

in a passage from Adorno's Minima Morlia, he carefully scrutinises an apsect of life, which he associates with that of "Fascist maltreatment". the aspect he is concerned with is about how our interaction with our environment is dealt with.
technology, according to adorno, has warped our previous physical actions, such as quietly closing a door, into a maniacal slam.
our relation with the objects and tools around us seem to have lost their aesthetic quality, and are now functional objects whereby the way we have contact with them is only on the perogotive that a desired operation shall place. adorno's view is that the priviliged role played by such consumer items, is that of performance.

this seems problematic, i would agree that there is perhaps a mechanical nature (oxymoron???)to our actions in relation certain functional objects, eg a microwave, but maybe this is because it is a funtional tool and thus we act towards it in that way, limiting the possibility of reification.

it is the fact of reification, so imbued in society and culture, that people to treat objects as though they were the most precious of humans. yet our reification of objects seems to be directed to those which do not necessarily serve most useful, and those that do, are taken for granted.

could reification be a useful component of society, for example, in relation to the natural environment. reification in a non-metaphysical sense, or not?
if we lived with a reified, dare I say, polythiestic weltanshuuang, then our need for care and preservation would indeed be greater, well perhaps!
yet of course, it is indeed a riduculous and fruitless effort speculating about what might have been, we shall focus on what has been, and what possibilties are in front of us.....