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Dialectic of Enlightenment

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Adorno and the Culture Industry

I had no idea who Adorno was. And I read it and I felt like the scales came off my eyes. Like here's a, here's a real critique. It hit me at a moment where I was just starting to discover like art music, whatever. But reading Adorno really cultivated that sense of like the popular is just, it's just pure id, purely ideological. You see this especially online and in, you know, in YouTube and, and, and Twitter accounts. That's pretty close to the psychoanalytic position of the injunction to enjoy.

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