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Episode 136: Adorno on the Culture Industry

The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

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The Rhetoric of Freedom

The more realistic a movie is, the more robbed of autonomy you are. And that's what would make you a good worker and not filling in the blanks of imagination. We don't want any workers filling in any blanks. I just play a sinister theme for myself on my, on my iPod all the time. Because that's how I see myself. I don't listen to anything. But now we walk around with our portable music devices and we create that soundtrack to make our lives even more like movies. Yes. I couldn't get to a day if I didn't have my own sound. You could add in modern critiques of that just like, well, it's so unrealistic

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