Consumer satisfactions shield modern people from the discipline institutions require.

Evidence

According to Schelsky, Gehlen and Freyer, modern alienation had failed to alienate people enough from their search for pleasure and from their need for immediate freedom precisely to the extent that it provided them with a surfeit of other satisfactions, albeit compensatory ones, which allowed them to forget the severities of life. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 614

Categorization

• XREF: Structurally identical to Marcuse’s analysis of repressive desublimation and one-dimensional satisfactions — but with the normative sign flipped. — connects to: Blocked power over productive activity produces consumerism as compensation. — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 689; Mass culture’s technical rationality masks class domination as consumer demand. — Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment, 94; Culture consumed as consumer goods manipulates people rather than liberating them. (+8 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Blocked power over productive activity produces consumerism as compensation. — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 689; Mass culture’s technical rationality masks class domination as consumer demand. — Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment, 94; Culture consumed as consumer goods manipulates people rather than liberating them. (+8 more)

Broader Connections

• Disciplinary power produces individuals rather than suppressing them. #complicates (0.78) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 264