Aloof: [aristocratic] distance maybe even Kantian; reserved; remote; physically and emotionally unavailable; view from afar; apart; separado.
Who's going to chisle away the wall? When one is aloof is the wall even worth chisling? Adorno claims: "He who stands aloof runs the risk of believing himself better than others and misusing his critique of society as an ideology for his private interests." Oye, herein lies the rub: when ideology is privitized, the self is priviledged; the aloof man can only converse with himself. There is really no critique of society.
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amen . . . and here's the other rub, when knowledge is produced in a capitalist society, and therefore mutates from a public good into a private good, then such aloofness pays, literally.
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