The Culture Industry - Adorno, Horkheimer, Neomarxism and Ideology
Hello, were you enjoying your day watching Marvel movies and listening to The Chainsmokers? BECAUSE YOU SHOULDN'T BE, AND HERE ARE THE DORKS WHO SAY SO. If you hope to be a critical theorist, step one is dunking on the things that everyone else enjoys.
If you like the work there's more at spoti.fi/3f0OIXD and / plasticpills
Whew, a ton of editing went into this, so I was lucky to have the help of Shalon Van Tine with the script. Find her blog and site here:
www.shalonvantine.com/seconda.... There you'll also find the original paper I worked from.
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Source List:
Adorno & Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment: amzn.to/2TimPSt
Benjamin, Work of Art In the Age of Mechanical Reproduction: amzn.to/2TuUU0y
Horkheimer, Eclipse of Reason: amzn.to/2PAGWJp
Adorno, Aesthetic Theory: amzn.to/32Kirif
Marcuse, Eros and Civilization: amzn.to/32Hwc16
Marx, Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts: amzn.to/2wWrlx8
Fisher, Capitalist Realism: amzn.to/2IdeF7v
Eagleton, Culture: amzn.to/2vwxWhz
Timecode
0:00 Introduction
0:51 The Culture Industry
4:55 "Art" and Aesthetics
10:16 Psychology of Capitalism
14:35 Catharsis, or selling you your discontent
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Section Breakdown, for the attention or time deficient: 0:25 - The Culture Industry (Intro) 4:55 - Art & Aesthetics 10:17 - Capitalism as Psychology 14:37 - Catharsis (selling your own anxieties back to you)
@mobiditch6848
4 жыл бұрын
PlasticPills holy shit kid, great video. All business needs to become co-op. Worker shares not government where each remains a node in the market. Ownership changes yet the “free” market survives.
Ayo you really have a gift for rendering extremely complex ideas super accessible
@PlasticPills
4 жыл бұрын
That is what I strive for in every video--relevance without cheapening the material--so thank you very much for saying so.
@MMAneuver
4 жыл бұрын
“It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.”
@LustStarrr
3 жыл бұрын
@@MMAneuver - Cliffs Notes, personified.
@daniel-zh4qc
3 жыл бұрын
Great stuff... But oohhh the irony. Turning the AH into a consumable product in my feed. As Marcuse says, you cant utilize the tools of recuperation as a means of liberation.
@seenvideos6828
3 жыл бұрын
@@PlasticPills he’s right
"Owning the present isn't enough for them so they buy the past as well." So true and beautifully said.
@DarkAngelEU
Жыл бұрын
If the rich didn't buy those paintings, they'd be gone. It's very expensive to maintain and restore art objects. I know it's a bit of a "sad reality" where only the rich can buy actual works of art, but their value is calculated by how many people value the work, which also means how much the work travels which is also very expensive bc of insurances, custom fit travelling cases not to mention it is often guarded by specialized personnel. Art is expensive because it is valuable to us culturally. Complaining about the rich sustaining the arts, even if their motivation might be to show it off as another piece within their collection, is stupid. I say this as an artist and writer. Cultural objects would not sustain under state government and everyone paying their fair share of taxes. It's just too damn expensive and those taxes can be used for other necessary causes, like proper infrastructure.
@BooksRebound
Жыл бұрын
They buy the past, own the present, control the future. Man, it's bleak.
@tangerinesarebetterthanora7060
Ай бұрын
It would be nice if art was more accessible to others in museums and such. @@DarkAngelEU
Well done. “The culture industry is not the art of the consumer but rather the projection of the will of those in control onto their victims. The automatic self-reproduction of the status quo in its established forms is itself an expression of domination.” Adorno, The Culture Industry
The amount of views this video has is incredibly disproportionate to the value of its content and production quality.
@cedricsankara9809
2 жыл бұрын
Agree
“Jazz is gay” -Theodor Adorno
@afbf6522
3 жыл бұрын
I found an interesting article about jazz by Adorno by searching this quote on the internet. Thanks
@fuzzydunlop4513
3 жыл бұрын
@@afbf6522 lol the one from prisms right? Adorno does not like Jazz, at one point he implies that they’re homosexuals (in memoria moralia he also calls fascists homoexuals... I insist this is most problematic!). I always wondered what his feelings would be of ornette Coleman and dolphy style free jazz/avant garde Jazz, I’m pretty sure he wrote that at a point where jazz was predictably unpredictable. What’d you think of it? I read it a while ago I kinda forget it
@IvyTeaRN
3 жыл бұрын
@@fuzzydunlop4513 I have a theory that Ornette Coleman's emergence to fame was the thing that killed Adorno
@fuzzydunlop4513
3 жыл бұрын
@@IvyTeaRN HA! I also wonder how Adorno would have reacted to free jazz and avant garde jazz. It has all of the qualifications of anti-pop art.
@IvyTeaRN
3 жыл бұрын
@@fuzzydunlop4513 Adorno was really a bit of a snob and definitely too overly dismissive. I do think that his critique of modern day "art" is still really valuable though.
The channel "Theory Pleeb" addresses the two-prong alienation and alienated, consumptive leisure with their concept of "timenergy", in which productive "work" action (free energy, beyond the energy to recover from the last period of sustained exertion, with time for sustained repetition and cultivation) is owned by your boss, and your "free time" is actually **not** time for sustained repetition and cultivation, and a major chunk of it is also without free energy. When you're done recovering, you don't have enough time to sustain what you might call spontaneous action, so your only action is on owned time, not free time. And you only have enough free time to use your energy in a way that can't really cultivate anything substantive. So, you consume and veg out or perform actions that give immediate feedback without cultivation.
@brokenlegend23
4 жыл бұрын
Mori Totebag cand give a link brother?
@danopticon
3 жыл бұрын
@Mori Totebag - If I correctly grok what you’re writing, I remember reading a similar idea in a pamphlet called “The Abolition of Work,” by a writer named Bob Black, which made the rounds of the underground circuit in the 1980s: “Between getting ready for work, traveling to work, coming back from work, recovering from work, and preparing for next day’s work, the only thing ‘free’ about your ‘free time’ is nobody pays you.” Eye-opening!
Crazy to think Neil Breen is technically more artistic than any other director in the mainstream.
Wow, the production and editing is getting so good on your videos. This video was really entertaining and enlightening. Looking forward to the next one 👌
@PlasticPills
4 жыл бұрын
Yo ya, it's kinda embarrassing looking back to the early days. Volume's whack, cuts are slow, talking's boring... I'm happy with the progress.
Following Derrida's thought: every construction has in itself its deconstruction. Let's hope that's the case for capitalism realism too.
@staubsauger2305
4 жыл бұрын
"Capitalism" is the word used by Marxists. "Free Market" is used by those who understand the true nature of the system. The choice is between voluntary transactions ("Free Market") and voluntarily helping others ("charity") and coercive transactions and involuntarily helping the politically favored ("socialism"). The question is, is wealth exchange through voluntary transactions or involuntary transactions ? this is a moral question. Socialism is involuntary and achieved using state force against people who have done nothing wrong except be productive, therefore it is evil.
@HarshilKabduwal
4 жыл бұрын
Staub Sauger free market is not exclusive to capitalism, so there goes your argument. The use of free market is a way to hide the system we live undrt
@eliasward4303
4 жыл бұрын
@@staubsauger2305 you'd have to elucidate the notion of free and voluntary interaction you're employing for your argument to have any meaning beyond the abstractions you posit in it. One big difference between the way you, in this more libertarian, laissez-faire view society and economy, and more left-leaning perspectives consists in the belief that freedom, as it is formulated in neoclassical economy, is insufficent, and ought be expanded to also include more subtle forms of domination. This discord in the fundamental premises of your thinking with those of more socialist types, I think must be worked out for productive discourse to be possible.
@bergweg
4 жыл бұрын
Staub Sauger what % of transactions involving you and other people would you categorize as market transactions?
@brandonmiles8174
3 жыл бұрын
This is one of the best applications of this quote and coherent comments on the current dominance of the cultural hegemony of capitalism that I've seen. Capitalist realism has become so pervasive that I believe it's why most people are so quick to automatically just reject any positive change that would alleviate the oligarchic control of modern society, at least in the West. Its sad. Its depressing. We could become a vibrant society once again if people would only open up to the possibility of moving to a post-capitalism. I think using words like 'post-capitalism' instead of 'anti' is also a way that we can begin to change the way people think.
This is incredible! It took me literally weeks to break into this book and you described it so eloquently! After watching this I am going to reread the brilliant chapter in the book; and because of this video I'll now be able to see it in a whole new light! Seriously thank you for this resource
Great content - disaffected 60yo cynical artist here, reacquainted with Postmodernism after the mid 80s. Cannot explain originality to my Marvel-zed son (as a kid was a huge fan) the cultural loop. Hat tip to you for clearly explaining this topic to a younger generation that took me 40 years to understand.
live what you're doing. my 20 yr old philosophy degree wasn't a waste.
Thank u so much!🖤 Everything in this video calls out to perfection, from editing, to sectioning the essay for better understanding & ur explaining the essay in a much simpler way with the examples👏... This really helped 🤗
No idea why I never get recommended your videos anymore. Still great, this is one of my favourite topics. Thanks!
@PlasticPills
4 жыл бұрын
Daaamn here's a throwback, you were one of my first viewers Potato!
@ashutoshchakravarty2669
2 жыл бұрын
@@PlasticPills wholesome moment
I had stumbled across this video because I was having trouble writing a paper on culture industry and this video helped me sooo much thank you!! :)
I’m writing a paper on Hamilton and the american narrative and this has been super helpful! Especially considering that Disney+ has just bought & distributed the pro shot
Watched this video right after finished reading the Culture Industry. You made the whole thing clearer. Thank you for this comrade! Feel bad for even getting to watch such hight quality content for free.
been exploring lots of philosophy channels and PlasticPills popped up (no pun intended) last night, so glad it did! Really enjoyed the interpretation of Adorno etc. in this video, looking forward to watching the rest...
I just want to say you make great videos and I think people like you are important for educating people by breaking down complex issues in digestible ways. I've read the dialectic of the enlightenment and I think you summed their stuff up well
Woooow thank you so much!!! I am a Brazilian student and I am analyzing the Cultural Industry inside Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451, and your sources helped so much!!! Great video composition and content! Perfect!
@juanmccoy3066
Жыл бұрын
What is it with Brazil having this amazing education system? Everytime I look up a video on my side interests in philosophy and economics there's always some kid like u saying they're from Brazil and watching these videos for class. From different viewpoints to. Pro capitalism, pro marxism, pro libertarian, rothbarian, objectivism, critical theory, mutualism... American college students don't look this stuff up on KZread. Im like 30 now, but when I was looking this kinda stuff up at 20 people thought I was crazy.
The Clash have a lyric: “Turning rebellion into money”
You are now my favorite youtuber. Thank you so much for your hard work and research!
Thank you for this video! i watch it often to refresh my memory on the cultural industries before i have to write a paper!
So insightful. Came across this as I was preparing an essay on 1984. Very thought provoking
I'm an disabled veteran from my service as a USAF flight medic. I have alot of experience as an IDMT Special Operations medic. Usually attached to Army Ranger units and Marine MAPS Operators. It REALLY bothers me that "Special Operations" - usually SEALS, Rangers etc. are ALWAYS painted as these Rock Star, comic like "Super Heroes" protecting "Freedom" from "Bad Guys". In my experience, these guys are sociopathic/psychopathic killers that just love hurting people, ending life and breaking things. As part of the MEDICAL CORPS, these boys struck me more as terrifying characters in "The Boys" than ones in "Lone Survivor" or "Captain America". They ARE impressively capable "Super-men" in the true Nietzschian sense of the word. More scary than inspiring. It kills me that DoD has such a close and successful relationship with the Media Industrial Complex. Especially since they make money brain washing the public.
@kxkxkxkx
5 ай бұрын
RLTW Doctors in the USA kill a helluva lot more people than the Rangers do 💯
Good Lord that was exceptional and piercing. Will be re watching and re watching to further absorb and integrate and activate. Thank you for this gift! You rock!
That was really great. Thank you Mr. PlasticPills. You’re on my radar. Well played.
In reference to 6:22 , didn't Adorno assert that folk culture had been integrated into pop culture? That in attempting to bridge the gap between high art and low art, the culture industry had essentially eliminated the meaning of both in one fell swoop. High art because it was now broken apart from its whole, as it was fractured into digestible pieces for the masses (separated from the whole, which is what gives much of it it's substance and lack of 'sameness'). Low art then lost its ability to protest and truly represent the commoners, because it had been integrated into popular mainstream culture, elevating those artists to higher status, and thus eliminating its ability to protest the establishment due to now being intertwined directly with it in its cycle of repetition. In bridging the gap between the two, effectively both were destroyed of meaning. That's was my takeaway from "On The Fetish Character In Music And The Regression Of Listening" and "The Schema of Mass Culture" at least.
"all that is solid melts into PR" is such an unforgettable chapter title, very cool to see fisher mentioned
Damn.. I am hooked to your channel... This is some really powerful stuff on this platform.. You're doing a great job. thank you for putting in all these efforts and getting down some really complex ideas in a simplified way. Also, Great editing skills and narration! :)
To maybe put a more optimistic spin; foucault, in his later years talked quite a bit about the possibility that late-capitalism effectively sews the seeds of its own dissolution, in that it is constantly creating cracks in the metaphorical pavement through which new forms of human life and social relations can emerge. Capitalism naturally does this as a part of its own internal mechanisms, and it is on us to recognize these spaces which open up, and take advantage of them. ok so what I'm really saying is, let's start an anarchy-hippie commune. I can already play bongos and harmonica. whose bringing the weed???
@joel0joel0
4 жыл бұрын
haha how Marxist and dialectical from Foucault to say something like that. But to the point, the idea that something like this could happen is not wrong, but its so that we actually searching for such things since the 30s and people have not really found something. Why the 30s you asking? Because we thought until then that the proletariat will rise up and start communism, thing is not world communism was rising but mostly fascist counterrevolutions. Which actually led Adorno and Horkheimer to write dialectic of Enlightenment. Which showed us that commodification of all parts of life and capitalistic ideology is pretty big and you can barely escape it and when you really go to a anarchy-hippie-commune, your mostly isolated with no real power to change anything, because and that's the last reason why there was no big revolution, capitalism works for the people in a specific way, it gives them cars, fridges and the new marvel movie and that's all they apparently want.
@Nalhek
4 жыл бұрын
@@joel0joel0 capitalism creates commodities in order to create profit. What people "really want" is a more complicated question, bc we must also take into consideration the fact that human desire is sculpted by a range of possibilities which is itself delimited by the functioning of capitalism itself. I can't very well desire something which has never been truly presented to me as a live possibility, for example. If by "the 30s" you mean the 1917 october revolution, then my preferred take on that issue is that 20th century communist parties became bogged down in authoritarianism due specifically to the totalitarian nature of Leninist essentialism itself, as Leninism was able to function as an absolutist doctrine which was able to become it's own form of normalizing force of social power, rather than a force of de-territorialization, horizontality and solidarity. "Hippie communes" may be politically ineffectual insofar as they lack the capacity for broader social transformation, but that shouldn't diminish the potential of counter-economics in general, which will likely become an even more significant dynamic of resistance moving forward as we see the continual development of climate change, non-state currencies and localized social organization.
@danopticon
3 жыл бұрын
Adding to the two replies - IMO anarcho-hippie communes, if they engage in outreach (and I’d argue their true primary function is as education nodes, even if not overtly so) can illustrate to their surrounding communities what’s possible… which is why pop culture today studiously derides them, despite their meager direct political power: they might excite and expand the imagination of capitalism’s current alienated “beneficiaries.” I’m not real down with weed as part of a revolutionary message - that seems like something more for private use - but music and happy people can illustrate the benefits of alternatives to current unquestioned economic and cultural paradigms, and can trigger larger conversation: “Oh, that will never scale up…” “Well, what about small autonomous communities, interdependent within a larger democratic framework?” and so on. I doubt any sudden top-down change could occur in the USA without the furthest far-right nutcases swooping in to take over anyway - that’s the problem with destabilizing top government structures, is you accidentally create an opportunity for better-organized forces, willing to be brutal, to seize the whole kit and caboodle once you’ve done the work of destabilizing its leadership. Grassroots change by contrast is surer and stabler. Having grown up in a developing nation, I can tell you that in those impoverished or precarious states, more so than in the USA, is where capitalist-conformist pop culture has become the unquestioned and unquestionable totalitarian force. We‘d get so much further globally if there were a pan-tropical multi-continental progressive alliance. It seemed attainable before the ‘80s, but how to cultivate alternatives there now is hard to imagine.
@PragmaticOptimist
3 жыл бұрын
Is capitalism really at it's late stage though? I don't think so. This system came into life approx. in the 18th century, it's the 21st now. It's only been like 3 centuries, feudalism lasted for at least 6. I really don't think we've seen capitalism's full form yet, much less its demise.
@bobbybriggs7126
3 жыл бұрын
foucault was interested in neoliberalism tho
This is the best YT channel I have stumbled across in a very long time.
18:08 "change of ownership",... I would add: change in how people see/understand the ownership concept and its history .. (for more info see general semantics)
Stellar exposition, man. Appreciate your efforts.
thank u, i was dying with this essay, i think i know what to do now. ily
listen man i cannot thank you enough for making this video 2 years ago lol you break this stuff down and make it so understandable. Have an essay due on this and now thanks to you i can go write about terrible dystopian teen fiction and capitalism
great video man, super clear explanation of a text i was struggling to grasp, thanks.
This is such an important concept for people to understand. Thanks for making this video, wish more people would watch it and understand!
As a graduate student who just took Adorno & Benjamin’s class, reading Dialect of Enlightenment, Critical Models, Aesthetic Theory, and Minima Moralia, this video is underrated and has the explanatory power beyond what you can find on the internet. Have nothing but respect for this man 🙏
ok I will probably have to rewatch this at some point but this is what I got from this: so when you watch something that you relate a great deal to, it feels cathartic but it is taking away your drive to do anything real about your situation. Also because the media is owned by like 5 companies, the messages within the media are going to be limited to what they find acceptable to maintain the status quo and this keeps people from thinking that doing something else outside of this media bubble is allowed. And thus people then get more attracted to shows that are more stunted.
I can almost hear Žižek begging to be inserted more here, this is all his best shit in the sublime object of ideology. Great video!
Just binged the whole channel, awesome stuff. Would love your take on vapourwave and hauntology!
@PlasticPills
3 жыл бұрын
Lol great! I am read on hauntology is but I am oblivious to vapourwave besides that it's music for always online people?
This channel is amazing!
From Lacan to this, definitely subbed. Finally some fucking substance and depth
great video. production quality = A+. a suggestion from a filmmaker: give yourself more "headroom" on the video. seeing your hat/head cut off from the video frame isn''t horrible, but the frame with your whole head plus an inch or two would look better
amazing research on content and extraordinary presentation.. Thankyou for this!!!
I'm going to read dialectics of enlightenment. Thank you so much.
@tamarasaxon9232
3 жыл бұрын
Don’t bother - communism has never worked and will never work - it’s evil and misleading
@attakasi4065
3 жыл бұрын
@@tamarasaxon9232 I Agree.
@ruth078
3 жыл бұрын
@@tamarasaxon9232 are you scared of opposing ideas?
@tamarasaxon9232
3 жыл бұрын
@@ruth078 I am scared of communism, lol.
@ruth078
3 жыл бұрын
@@tamarasaxon9232 why tho? It's just a different economic system.
Fascinating analysis. I enjoyed this👍
Excellent explanation. Have more videos please
My goodness I love your work!
This was a job well done. Thank you
Cheers for the video my dude, really helpful for my studies
My favorite videos of yours are the ones that talk about mass culture. I like how you cover similar ideas from the views of different thinkers.
@PlasticPills
4 жыл бұрын
Thanks Ian, you done with Fatal Strategies yet? I don't mind doin the vids on theory but I agree that it's most effective when applied. Comments like this help me decide on direction so preach!
@ianbanghart6333
4 жыл бұрын
@@PlasticPills No problem, and I am! I've read System of Objects, In the Shadows of Silent Majorities, and now Fatal Strategies. Baudrillard's ideas, and these related theory videos are really interesting to me. I work as a wedding musician, and the wedding industry (at least in the US) is such a concentrated example of a lot of these ideas. Seeing you apply them helps me understand and apply the ideas better for myself.
@PlasticPills
4 жыл бұрын
Ha! there's no place like a wedding for simulation and fetishes
@ianbanghart6333
4 жыл бұрын
There's really not!
'Probably my favourite video from your channel. Thank you.
Can't wait to see that 100k subscriber plaque thing sooner or later
this HELPED ME SM ty!
That was literally mind blowing. Thanks.
@juanmccoy3066
Жыл бұрын
If it was literally mind blowing u would be dead and u wouldn't have posted that comment... js
I'm very happy to have found your channel! Your videos are very well made and your explanations are well put. You've inspired me to revisit these topics. Do you know Rene Girard? I've never read someone so able to decode everything about me. You might not like his Christianity, but his mimetic theory and critique of psychoanalysis have changed my life. I'd love someone with your ability to make him more widely accessible.
Commenting to feed the parameterized attention displacement heuristic! Good stuff!
I was doing a piece on Reverse Psychology on Masses when i came across this. Really helpful. Thanks!
Wonderful video as always
“The mechanical factory like reproduction of art objects reduces it’s perceived aesthetic intimacy with the artist, it’s aura.” This quote wonderfully also explains art in the 21st century, where advancement in artificial intelligence let’s create art from text prompts (see DALL-E 2 as an example), as well as the vacuous phenomenon that is NFT art.
Appreciate the video. I'm currently reading Benjamin's The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction and trying to make some sense of the early Frankfurt School. I'm sure this will be very helpful!
Thank you so much for sharing.
that was a PACKED 18 min but still very comprehensible. thanks for your work.
Then Parasite enters the scene and gets the Oscar. That movie was not complicit or shy about where it stands. I admit that a lot of people just saw the theme as the heist of a poor family and were disturbed about so much social critic in the movie even when the whole theme of the movie was the class conflict but the movie could not be more in your face than it is. I am not saying this about 40's critics but today instead of brooding about the culture industry, people should take advantage of its tools, like you are doing here in youtube and Bong Joon Ho does it in his movies. I don't think there is an alternative.
@enzogonzales608
3 жыл бұрын
but this is infinitely more possible in early capitalist societies like South Korea, because there is a growing middle class of people willing to take risks in media and entertainment on something like Parasite. And I don't really think Parasite is all that revolutionary, one could read it just as easily as a critique of the idiotic foibles of the lower class as one can feel that they were justified. That's the problem with entertainment as a form of class consciousness, one is free to perceive it however they want to, which is usually however the culture industry has demanded that they respond to it. (buy more Joker masks, which then become a joke in itself, etc.)
@hanifmajidi296
3 жыл бұрын
I think you missed the Capitalist Realism™️ part at the end.
@linkaima5403
3 жыл бұрын
Parasite was funded by the daughter of Samsungs CEO, it's more of a middle finger to her dad than a rallying cry for revolution.
@hyacinth1320
3 жыл бұрын
@@linkaima5403 We'll take it!
@skyedogg
3 жыл бұрын
Is that not the "selling you your discontent" bit he was talking about? Parasite made $264 million.
You seem like a nice guy. Congratulations on your success 👍🏻
thank you for breaking this down, definitely helped me for my paper, cheers mate
This video is revolutionary for me. Thank you.
We need more quality content like this
This channel is really good.
8:52 - you know is a great quote when you stop to read it twice and let it sink in.
Nice. Theorywave nights is going to be doing a read through of dialectic of enlightenment soon. I'm looking forward to finally going through the whole thing.
@PlasticPills
4 жыл бұрын
You wanna drop the link?
@dirtsonofearth2021
4 жыл бұрын
@@PlasticPills we start in April. We are doing communist manifesto first. Maybe you would like to participate?
@PlasticPills
4 жыл бұрын
@@dirtsonofearth2021 I'd be down, and maybe some of the guys and gals here too, which platform is it?
Excellent breakdown of a difficult topic.
Some of the insights of "Adork" seem to run parallel to those of Huxley in Brave New World (written in the 30s). Possible inspiration? Currently reading "surveillance capitalism" by Shoshana Zuboff, where our situation (as described in your video) is described as a "coup from above" by the elite against the people of the democracy.
@andronio26
4 жыл бұрын
Adorno definitely knew about Huxley's work and regularly references him in some of his lesser known essays, although he considered him somewhat of a reactionary
@uniquechannelnames
3 жыл бұрын
The 30s and 40s was a time of insane transition, i think for observant people many changing aspects would have been obvious. Being born into makes it so much harder to extract yourself out to a different perspective all together.
@feigekv
3 жыл бұрын
Huxley was a fascist. So, no
as of now this is officially my favorite channel. (what to do with this info is up to you)
Excellent video, clear, concise and more erudite than I’ll ever manage thanks.
«... the entire purpose of the culture industry is to alieanate the activity of consumption from every other part of life.»
Oh yeah, it’s big brain time.
thank you I was really struggling
Liking this video has cured my cathartritis! May it generate more ad revenue for you so that you can produce many more sequels.
Excellent video! Solidarity from Amsterdam...
Thanks for this summary. I’d been dreading reading this lots stuff (this and authoritarian personality).
Well this was a banger of an episode.
After watching this video I have an overwhelming desire to buy some of your merchandise. godamit!!
Very easily explained. Now I can easily read the essay
Lovely work. Really blew my mind. I wanna read these books now.
Sobering video!!! So well said...
Another great video. Thanks dude
@PlasticPills
4 жыл бұрын
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great video loved it !!!! thank you
I always enjoy a plastic pills product. . Thank you again
Great video man!
You have never made low quality content man in all this time and im happy to see such a top tire class content creator
@juanmccoy3066
Жыл бұрын
I see a lot of these comments, which seems kinda ironic considering the message IN his videos. Like, ud think the way it looks and the "quality" wouldn't matter if the information was good. Clearly yall didn't absorb the video.
@akiamini4006
Жыл бұрын
@@juanmccoy3066 bruh the effort on transfering the info promised is the content is the main point . Like if he got drunk and ranted the whole time itd be a shitty one with novody benefittin . You already knew what i meant
Man this was good!!!😭😭
Great, thanks for the video
Dayz had a great breakdown of this
Fuck. That little bit about the active producer and passive consumer perfect complementing one another is dreadful in its implications. This dynamic is scary for its simplistic and self evident truth. It hit me like a tonne of bricks.
your exit music sounding like lavender town theme music. i dig it
i love this channel