Abstractness as Evidence of Myth, Kracauer

"The prevailing abstractness reveals that the process of demythologization has not come to an end."

"In other words, the unchecked development of the capitalist system fosters the unchecked growth of abstract thinking (or forces become bogged down in a false concreteness). The more abstractness consolidates itself, however, the more man is left behind, ungoverned by reason. [...] It is a mere consequence of the unhampered expansion of capitalism's power that the dark forces of nature continue to rebel ever more threateningly, thereby preventing the advent of the man of reason."

Siegfried Kracauer, "The Mass Ornament", The Mass Ornament: Weimar Essays (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1995), p. 82-8.