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Dialectic of Enlightenment

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I Hate When People Criticize the Culture Industry

The culture industry does not sublimate its oppressors. By constantly exhibiting the objects of desire it merely goads the unsublimated anticipation of pleasure, which through the habit of denial has long since been mutilated as masochism. It reduces love to romance and once reduced much is permitted,. even a libertinage, libertanage, I have no idea, as a marketable specialty; pervade by quota with the trade description daring. And then the one person you can take down because it's so obvious he's challenging the rules of the system. You have to say that he's just the exception that proves the rule. Like that's, that's how you have to

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