
Episode #110 ... The Frankfurt School pt. 3 - The Culture Industry
Philosophize This!
The Product Workers of a Capitalist Society Have a Demand For
Mass media has become for people. We want ta focus on these worlds that don't really exist, so we can escape having to think about the one we're actually living in. Theodore dorno says that in an age of spiritual disenchantment, the individual experiences the need for substitute images of the divine. It obtains these through pseudo culture, hollywood idols, soaps, novels, pop tunes, lyrics and film jonra such as the wild west or the mafya. That's what he said. What we like to do is exalt these celebrities on to a pedestal and look at them as though they're these messiah like figures. Oh, it's
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