bots don't get distracted. I am now going to be a good human and finish my Henry David Thoreau essay and get a chunk off my analysis of the movie "Six degrees of separation" which includes an analysis of the culture industry. Oh the fun ...................................

According to Theodor W Adorno and Max Horkheimer, the administered modern world is sustained in part by technologically reproduced mass art. They contend that the culture industry serves the totalitarian impulses of modern capitalist society, not least because the interests of leading broadcasting firms, publishing companies, and motion picture studios are economically interwoven with those of other capitalist industries. In its attempt to produce and reproduce the social relations of a homogenized society, the culture industry contributes to the hypnotization of the individual consciousness and the maintenance of the status quo. It transforms art into commodities and people into complacent consumers, depicting a “realistic” world that is really no more than a combination of stereotypes, advertising and propaganda. The culture industry also helps create a state of mind in which people’s desires for pleasure and happiness are activated but deferred in endless entertainment. It incalcates resignation, habituating consumers to the everyday drudgery of pensatory entertainment for the life of regimentation but instead represses the desire for happiness, depicting the modern world in a degraded tragedy of “realistic” characters who accept the inexorable order of things. In this way the culture industry manages the psyche of its consumers.