Why are The Frankfurt School demonized when they were the first expose the Mainstream Media?

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]

Because of Sup Forums's irrational hatred of everything german.

Bamp!

Yes goy. There's no agenda in the media. It's all just for the money.

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.

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!

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.

Because most of them were typical commies, Frankfurt school is not just Adorno moron.

>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.

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.

Nor will depriving them of tax revenue.

Nor will conservatives who offer no public programs improve society any.

Conservatives need to change their anti-tax ways and start offering grand public programs and schemes for strengthening individuals. Not big business.

Adorno wanted to break the cultural bonds between people. He was a Post-Modernist.

The culture industry can only provide a sandbox in which real culture happens. This isn't a problem. It's only a problem when that industry stifles culture rather than providing a framework which you can either engage with or ignore. That's your freedom.

>Nor will depriving them of tax revenue.
>Nor will conservatives who offer no public programs improve society any.
Never said it did.
>strengthening individuals
Is this your first day here? Do you really believe that strengthening the individual will lead to a more stable society?

How is that bad though? This isn't the first time!email you've made this post and, never explained why this is wrong/or bad. People with disposable income finance things.

>Their point was that the media and culture industries are weaker compared to the industries where the big money is made
>entertainment and media isn't a big money industry
You cite steel manufacturing as a huge money making industry. This isn't the 1900s anymore

Agreed Republicans should just become Democrats. Fucking retards!

>You cite steel manufacturing as a huge money making industry.

I didn't cite them... The Frankfurt School did - and that's from all the way back in 1944.

>Do you really believe that strengthening the individual will lead to a more stable society?

If you strengthen them in a way that causes them to identify them and their strength with the society that enabled that.

People rebel against social convention because society aliens them.

People help society and aid civilization only when they identify with that society and the citizens in it.

That is what a strong culture is.

We already do that and it's not working out too well. We gave people the right to self determination and we gave them everything they needed to realise themselves and to flourish, guess what happened? They became the driving force in what is going to destroy our societies.

>We already do that and it's not working out too well. We gave people the right to self determination and we gave them everything they needed to realise themselves and to flourish, guess what happened? They became the driving force in what is going to destroy our societies.


No; lefties already did that - and that did it in the lefty way of saying "Oh you don't have to identify with us, you can critique us - we accept that"


....not the conservative way of "We invest in you - so you MUST invest in us or we will not work with or for you"....


...so no, Conservatives have not, and do not offer major public projects to strengthen individuals to identify with the west.

They simply offer nihilism in the form of paying less taxes... having less imigration... shrinking and demoralizing the west in their own ways.

After all, if the government doesn't believe and trust the people - then why should the people believe or trust in the government?

I'm not talking about conservatism. I'm talking about our societies. Our societies gave the individual everything he needed to succeed and the individual took it all and turned it's back to those who gave him everything.

The people our society alienates (most often the poor) are not the people holding up the "Refugees Welcome" signs or the people protesting for open borders. Look at Eastern Germany they're far more conservative than the West despite being poorer and despite being alienated by our Democracy.

underrated

Normal people are incapable of understanding the philosophy these guys were doing. The Left just garbles it into their insane pseudo-religion, and the Right reacts with complete incomprehension.

>>they proposed that popular culture is akin to a factory producing standardized cultural goods..that are used to manipulate mass society into passivity.[
At every level of development cultural inheritance outweighs many times what the individual could achieve in a lifetime.
Passive absorption of culture necessarily increases with knowledge, mass organization, and economic output.
The common good became maximum economic performance - the widest distribution of cheapness and fakeness.