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Dialectic of Enlightenment

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The Comedy of Lubitsch, Right?

I love this idea of wrong society, like there's a right one. And I think that just gets completely overlooked in this diatribe. It's because Adorno wasn't funny, but it's, why isn't he funny, right? Because to be funny and to be in touch with the comic is to be dialectical. So they totally miss out how the comic can actually undermine a structure. Right. The fact that they just have to be totally dismissive of comedy is suggestive of what we started with: That they're dualists and they're not dialecticians. This episode has taken an outside look at culture industry critique as being relevant today.

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