Culture industry products stage false conflicts resolved by benevolent authority.

Evidence

In the products of the culture industry human beings get into trouble only so that they can be rescued unharmed, usually by representatives of a benevolent collective; and then in empty harmony, they are reconciled with the general, whose demands they had experienced at the outset as irreconcilable with their interests. — Theodor W. Adorno, The Culture Industry, 144

Categorization

Category: Causal Relationships

• ADDENDUM: This is the structural template for running Adorno’s analysis on any post-death narrative culture: the fake-conflict-plus-benevolent-rescuer arc.

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