“The total effect of the culture industry is one of anti-enlightenment, in which… the progressive technical domination of nature, becomes mass deception and is turned into a means for fettering consciousness. It impedes the development of autonomous, independent individuals who judge and decide consciously for themselves.”
— Theodor W. Adorno, “Culture Industry Reconsidered”
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