Industrial society’s liberties themselves capture populations as a captive audience

Evidence

In the overdeveloped countries, an ever-larger part of the population becomes one huge captive audiencecaptured not by a totalitarian regime but by the liberties of the citizens whose media of amusement and elevation compel the Other to partake of their sounds, sights, and smells … Massive socialization begins at home and arrests the development of consciousness and conscience. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2582

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to Adorno’s culture-industry thesis (ch50) that entertainment pleasure leads back to drudgery. — connects to: Expert delegation and naturalized narratives manufacture passive consent to capitalism — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism: An Intervention, 27; Surveillance capitalism aims to author people rather than destroy them — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1062; Surveillance capitalism’s third modernity trades individual freedom for imposed collective certainty — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1323 (+9 more)
• ADDENDUM: Marcuse’s captive-by-liberties image is a direct soundscape/social-control statement relevant to the silence/noise interests and One Square Inch themes.

Broader Connections

• The system’s celebrated freedoms function as instruments of domination #corroborates (0.95) — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 45
• Expert delegation and naturalized narratives manufacture passive consent to capitalism #corroborates (0.82) — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism, 27
• Surveillance capitalism’s third modernity trades individual freedom for imposed collective certainty #complicates (0.80) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1323
• Advanced industrial society channels erotic and aggressive instincts into socially controlled outlets. #exemplifies (0.80) — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 61
• Surveillance capitalism’s behavioral modification creates heteronomous individuals contrary to democratic ideals #expands (0.78) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1003
• Industrial society reduces individuals to interchangeable species beings through conformist working conditions #corroborates (0.78)
• Surveillance capitalism aims to author people rather than destroy them #qualifies (0.75) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1062
• Adaptation to industrial work methods requires combining coercion with persuasion and consent. #expands (0.74)
• Surveillance capitalism operates through Big Other to engineer behavior rather than souls #qualifies (0.72) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1196