/lit/ - Literature

>listens to jazz ONCE

>>18486270
>OP sneaking Jazz artists into "high culture"
Nice try.

I think he didn't live to see Rock & Roll and the Beatles, but what would he have thought of it?

Any books that argue against this guy's hatred for jazz?

>be me
>be a German cultural theorist obsessed with traditional folklore
>be immersed from birth in the various fairy tales of my homeland
>spend basically every waking hour fawning over European culture, from ancient mythology to enlightenment literature to classical music and opera
>decry the modern consumerist culture of pleasure-seeking, even in its most modest manifestations like Disney cartoons and jazz
>identify liberal capitalism as the root of this evil, while simultaneously critiquing Soviet bureaucratic socialism as well as the "third position" capitalism of fascism
>become so deeply committed to the preservation of culture that even seemingly neutral things like technological advance and increased sexual promiscuity become an ally of the cultural industry
>spend my entire life crusading against the culture-industry of the postwar Western world
>layer my works with loving tributes to the culture I hold so dear, with constant references to Goethe and his ilk
>so rigid in my defense of culture and decency that I fucking die of a heart attack after seeing titties
>50 years later
>all the problems I diagnosed only get even worse
>neoliberal capitalism has created an entirely commodified culture, plagued by lowest-common-denominator trash meant to rake in as much profit as possible
>national cultures are eradicated in favor of postmodern international commodification
>the culture of the past, the culture I spent so long defending, is practically on its deathbed
>a generation of young men take notice of this, and start to rally against the culture industry
>thank god, I will finally be vindicated by the alienated youth raised under this despicable society
>they immediately call me a "degenerate post-modern Cultural Marxist who destroyed western culture" as they go lust after degenerate American 50s society and fap to Japanese cartoons, all instead of actually resisting the fundamental material basis of liberal capitalism
>mfw

>It's a "/pol/ thinks that Frankfurt philosophers, the school most highly invested in preserving Western culture against capitalism, are secretly cultural-Marxist neoliberals" episode
You fucks suck the cock of capital and then cry when that same capital makes your superhero movies woke-pandering for profit. I hope you realize that, if you brought your schizo-ramblings from the 1930s into an actual philosophical forum, you'd be laughed out of the room faster than you can say "I'm not right-wing, I'm actchually third position."

>If today you can see in Germany, in Prague, even in conservative Switzerland and in Catholic Rome, everywhere, boys and girls crossing the streets locked in each others arms and kissing each other unembarrassed, then they have learned this, and probably more, from the films which peddle Parisian libertinage as folklore. In its attempts to manipulate the masses the ideology of the culture industry itself becomes as internally antagonistic as the very society which it aims to control. The ideology of the culture industry contains the antidote to its own lie. No other plea could be made for its defence.

Can someone explain what he means by the second part about how the culture industry becomes internally antagonistic and how it is the 'antidote to its own lie'?

Why does everyone say this guy was trying to subvert Western civilisation?
I just read his essay 'On the Fetish Character in Music' and he literally spends the whole time lamenting the decline of Western classical music (including Wagner) and critiquing the state of modern music today.
Why did no one tell me this guy was so based?
Why do left wing people read him? Adorno would have hated you lefty faggots with your bourgeois trannyism, gay rights and hatred of Western Civilisation.

Where do I start with this chap?

>>13627149
>Lol, trying to figure out where I said anything resembling that
>cheap
>CHEAP
>what was the box office of the movie? how much money was put into them? oh just a few mere millions? CHEAP therefore INVALID