Episode 136: Adorno on the Culture Industry
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
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The Importance of Laughter
In wrong society, laughter is a sickness, infecting happiness and drawing it into society's worthless totality. Joy, however, is austere. Laughter about something is always laughter at it. Parodies what is best in those who laugh. The audience, comedians talk about how they love just getting people to laugh together. But no, the collective humanity of those who laugh parodies monads,. Each abandoning himself to pleasure at the expense of all others.
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