Adorno contends that prospects for transforming late capitalist society into a realm of freedom presuppose the experience of identity as “a universally coercive mechanism which we … ultimately need in order to free ourselves from universal coercion, just as freedom can come to be real only through coercive civilization, not by way of any ‘Back to nature’” (ND 147).(ibid, 87)
of course that "back" is not going to a cozy one, that's why van life in the off-grid backcountry is a good exercise, ask Chad or Chrome, they would heartily agree
