Contemporary culture splits professed altruistic ideals from actually pursued standards of success.

Evidence

The mechanism at work here involves a double set of values which makes itself felt throughout contemporary culture. On the one hand, there are the `ideals’ of magnanimity, unselfishness, justice, and love to which one has to pay lip service. On the other hand, there are the standards of achievement, success, and status which one has to follow in one’s actual life. This double set of values is applied to the Jews in reverse, as it were. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 442

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: The double-valuation structure is the operative diagnostic concept of the interview analysis, and it is reversible — the same split produces both admiration and resentment of Jews.
• XREF: Same double-consciousness structure Hall later analyzes in official values versus lived common sense. — connects to: Culturally successful practices are not morally superior ones.; Culture’s distance from the economy makes it prone to idealization — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory: Nations, Classes, Literatures, 18; Modern individuals derive their ideals from specialized occupational roles, not unified cultural wholes — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 847 (+4 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Culturally successful practices are not morally superior ones.; Culture’s distance from the economy makes it prone to idealization — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory: Nations, Classes, Literatures, 18; Modern individuals derive their ideals from specialized occupational roles, not unified cultural wholes — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 847 (+4 more)