Mass media performers internalize compliance until resistance is only simulated

Evidence

The jazz musician and everyone in front of the microphone or the camera are forced to inflict violence upon themselves. Indeed the most rewarded are those who do not even require this violence to be exercised upon them in the first place, those who are so utterly compliant with the expected behaviour that they can even simulate the signs of resistance spontaneously precisely because they no longer feel such resistance in themselves. — Theodor W. Adorno, The Culture Industry, 128

Categorization

• DEFINE: The endpoint of pseudo-individuation: compliance becomes so internalized that performers spontaneously simulate resistance they no longer feel. Definitional for the reader’s toolkit.