
Episode 217: QAnon's Movie Obsession
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I Love Spider-Man, Bugler?
The culture in history strengthens this form of identification for the sake of maximizing profits. The stronger you can get people to identify with characters, the more that they will be coming back for more products despite how awful the plots of these products are. Adorno thinks the strongest medium for conditioning this form of Identification is film. This is because film is the best method for displaying simplistic lifelike representations of the world to the viewer. What the culture industry has above any independent artist above all is a shit ton of money to throw out projects. And it's therefore unmatched in terms of its capacity to produce awe-inspiring lifelike representation of the world.
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