Why are The Frankfurt School demonized when they were the first expose the Mainstream Media?
>they proposed that popular culture is akin to a factory producing standardized cultural goods—films, radio programmes, magazines, etc.—that are used to manipulate mass society into passivity.[1] Consumption of the easy pleasures of popular culture, made available by the mass communications media, renders people docile and content, no matter how difficult their economic circumstances.[1] The inherent danger of the culture industry is the cultivation of false psychological needs that can only be met and satisfied by the products of capitalism; thus Adorno and Horkheimer especially perceived mass-produced culture as dangerous to the more technically and intellectually difficult high arts. In contrast, true psychological needs are freedom, creativity, and genuine happiness, which refer to an earlier demarcation of human needs, established by Herbert Marcuse. (See Eros and Civilization, 1955).[2]
Benjamin Jenkins
Because of Sup Forums's irrational hatred of everything german.
Isaac Reyes
Bamp!
Henry Thomas
Yes goy. There's no agenda in the media. It's all just for the money.
Joseph Parker
Their point was that the media and culture industries are weaker compared to the industries where the big money is made (banking and oil/energy)...
...and ergo those bigger industries - naturally got to control the message of the smaller cultural industries:
>In our age the objective social tendency is incarnate in the hidden subjective purposes of company directors, the foremost among whom are in the most powerful sectors of industry – steel, petroleum, electricity, and chemicals. Culture monopolies are weak and dependent in comparison. They cannot afford to neglect their appeasement of the real holders of power if their sphere of activity in mass society (a sphere producing a specific type of commodity which anyhow is still too closely bound up with easy-going liberalism and Jewish intellectuals) is not to undergo a series of purges. The dependence of the most powerful broadcasting company on the electrical industry, or of the motion picture industry on the banks, is characteristic of the whole sphere, whose individual branches are themselves economically interwoven. All are in such close contact that the extreme concentration of mental forces allows demarcation lines between different firms and technical branches to be ignored.
So it ends up working as a cohesive whole.
Josiah Murphy
That's not true! Everything is a big Manichean scheme! Don't you know that the Frankfurt School invented Hollywood and Theo Adorno wrote all the Beatles songs, to poison our minds!
Frankfurt School = Postmodernism = Deconstruction = DESTRUCTION!
I heard Jordan Peterson say that Jacques Derrida dedicated his life to exposing how bad all of Western civilization is (even though he obviously loved Plato and the whole Western Canon), and Foucault was the inventor of SJWism and identity politics (even though he explicitly said that he didn't want to be known as a gay icon)!
Antifa's playbook comes straight from the impenetrable writings of these philosophers! It's all a very clear plan! Let's throw Saul Alinsky in the discussion as well! It's all the same and it's all a plan and it's all bad and they're all working together! REEEE!
Andrew Hall
If the big businesses are trying to control the media and by proxy our culture they're doing a pretty horrible job considering how many socialists and tax the rich retards there are especially in big cities where more media companies are located and probably a whole lot more people listen to the media.
Henry Perry
Because most of them were typical commies, Frankfurt school is not just Adorno moron.
Asher Robinson
>tax the rich retards
...did you know The Koch Brothers funded the Tea Party.... and that the first Libertarian think tank was funded by big business.
Tax the rich people aren't retards. They're the last saviours of western civilization.
It's the "Don't tax anyone" people who are retards. pic related.
Cooper Williams
Libertarians are a fringe group. They don't matter.
"Taxing" the rich will fix nothing. Giving the government more money will not make them magically change their positions on important issues.