Mass culture erases the distinction between leisure sport and working-week drudgery

Evidence

In so far as mass culture reflects the totality of life as a complete system of open or covert sportive competitive struggles, it enthrones sport as life itself and even eliminates the tension between sport on the Sunday day off and the wretchedness of the working week, a tension in which the better part of sport used to consist. — Theodor W. Adorno, The Culture Industry, 129

Categorization

• XREF: Directly extends the reader’s key idea that ‘free time’ is administered continuation of work — sport’s last authentic tension gets eliminated. — connects to: Modern leisure organizes activity so rigidly that its schema outweighs its content; Mass culture occupies workers’ leisure with content stamped by the labor process they endure; Berlin entertainment palaces rationalized leisure to console white-collar workers’ powerlessness
• ADDENDUM: Leisure as continuation of labor parallels the grafting article’s infrastructure logic — what should be organic becomes administered.