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[Critical theory of Adorno and (...) No.8809824]

What are you guys thoughts on this theory? I did a paper on it and it's some haunting shit.

>Adorno and Horkheimer foresaw that capitalism's influence will propagate to all life's domains.
>Culture and arts are now seen as products meant to be sold. The ''Culture industry''
>Those products are standardized and they're all the same.
>They represent the reality e.g. films instead of going further than that.
>Individuals gladly adhere to the system thinking it's the best as medias portray it
>Fall of ''speculative'' social sciences and rise of positivism and empiricism. Accordind to Adorno, hard facts can't comprehend society as a whole.
>''Instrumental reason'' which is the new dominating reason in capitalist societies, everything has to have a purpose e.g. profit in most cases.
>Capitalist system constantly validated in mass produced culture and mass medias
>Individuals come to think that ''After capitalism there's chaos and only chaos''
>End of the emancipation praxis

[Critical theory of Adorno and (...) No.8809836]

It's much much more than that btw just tried to do a simple synopsis of the theory.

You guys should definitely check it out. They made the theory in fucking 1940 and I feel like today it's way worst with social medias, porn, video games and other stuff.