"The term culture industry (German: Kulturindustrie) was coined by the critical theorists Theodor Adorno (1903–1969) and Max Horkheimer (1895–1973), and was presented as critical vocabulary in the chapter "The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception", of the book Dialectic of Enlightenment (1944), wherein 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]"
You were wrong about Cultural Marxists they were trying to save us from mass degeneracy.
They were essentially critics of Capitalism and provided the intellectual basis for the 1968s students movements.
I kinda grieve how there aren't intellectual student movements anymore.
John Myers
((they))) knew fine well how their methods would develop. Even if they didn't the Cultural Marxists active today have turned their back completely on European tradition and culture, presenting it as something oppressive (cultural hegemony).
Michael Parker
The Frankfurt school, frankly, pol knows very little of it outside of memes.
But then again, this is pol and pol is almost always wrong.
Ian Sullivan
Is this wrong?
Andrew James
Why is Critical Theory applied only to western values?
pic not rel;ated
Easton Robinson
What the essence of the critical theory is:
> Objective knowledge is impossible. > Knowledge is always ideology > To think is violence > Abstract thinking is the princible of exchange > Reality is possibilty > Knowledge - made Auschschwitz possible, OY Vey. > To rule over nature is violence > Alienation of cultural heritage > Art is truth > Capitalism is the destroyer of community
You glorious basterds pick out one part of their work about enlighment and authority and that both contradict themselve especially for the subject and want to deduce out of this that the critical theory and frankfurter schule was absolute bullshit?
Please anons pull out your butplug and reevaluate you opinion.
William Evans
>was * absolute bullshit?
*was NOT
FIFM
(/Spoiler) It is still absolute bullshit desu(/spoiler)
Hudson Sanchez
This is just the usual Neomarxist way of thinking. Not really wrong but the consequences of acting in this way lead to bad things.
Connor Miller
One of you truely read their books? And never thought to yourself that they use a certain style of writing to sound especially eloquent and intellectual by using empty phrases and complicated semantics but then when you start to destill their shit the essence left isnt even woth to discuss it. They blatantly stole from Hegel and co and added their own mental masturbation to do what?
Infact they created a ductus of writing which themselves made them "special" or as equivalent to the the social caste of the "elites" which they original wanted to oppose. They made the same mistake like any other leftist "revolutionaries" they created intellectual caste and excluded those who couldnt see trough their bullshit. They opressed the people in some way like any other marxist leader or governement was/is a supressor to its people.
Funny think is that the actuall anti intellectuality that comes hand in hand with left ideology made it impossible to critical discuss their theories without them defending it like any other "believer" would defend his "religion". I guess half of them didnt even understand or read the shit they quote from because it make them feel special to say these fancy sentence and it gives them these good feeling in their tummy.
Tyler Miller
t. Popper
But you are indeed right.
Colton Hernandez
I am not a conformist by any means.
I oppose our system the same way i suppose stupid left ieology.
We truely need another revolution.
James Hill
They had no intention of "saving" us. They didn't have a moralistic or idealistic intention with their work. They were scientists.
Adorno was neither part of the frankfurt school nor pro 1968. He regulary called them degenerate and threw them out of his seminars.
Levi Clark
>Scientists Funny eh? Perhaps i should have said "researchers".
Anthony Wilson
[Citation needed]
Nathaniel Bell
Yes, because scientists use scientific methods which social "scientists" don't use.
Dominic Foster
Someone just read Brave New World I see
Jayden Fisher
>wherein 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 they were not describing merely projecting they provide false solutions too
the one thing not to do in response to capitalism is to abandon it and replace it with this coming techno communism that is an even greater tyranny advertising itself with those 'true human needs' adorno and horkheimer were mentioning the correct way is to keep it and return it to the old smithian capitalism and work from there to return to previous more natural economies and the same applies to society and government: the one thing not to do is to revolt since the tyranny that is established contains in itself protective mechanisms that perpetuate it on the basis of how much resistance people put up against it (like quicksand) it captures and redirects the revolutionaries into directions that suit it, see for example how the capitalist society managed to take the momentum out of its counter movement by integrating it and selling che guevara shirts and sedating those desires with false approval so do not move if you dont know what youre doing do not take anti establishment actions that are obviously advertised and approved by this system the wish to live freely and happily will be corrupted towards the benefit of this tyranny
Parker Brooks
So what should we do?
Matthew Price
Be a dissident, express dissent. Break their overton window by showing them the big picture and that our system is a very sophisticated scam.
