The most intimate reactions of human beings have become so entirely reified, even to themselves, that the idea of anything peculiar to them survives only in extreme abstraction: personality means hardly more than dazzling white teeth and freedom from body odor and emotions. That is the triumph of advertising in the culture industry: the compulsive imitation by consumers of cultural commodities which, at the same time, they recognise as false.– Adornheimer, ‘The Culture Industry’, Dialectic of Enlightenment aka SLOTERDIJK EAT YR HEART OUT, THESE DIALECITCAL DADDYS FORMULATED IDEOLOGY IN ITS CYNICAL FORM (aka ‘They know it and still they are doing it’) CIRCA ‘44. (via bustakay)
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