Mass-produced educational credentials suppress charisma more than talent.

Evidence

This question becomes critical in the cultural sphere. Weber touches upon what is coming in a parenthetical remark without realizing the significance of his observation, made over forty years ago during the conception of his great work. Within the highly-specialized context of the educational-sociological annotation to this chapter on bureaucracy he mentions that the possession of educational patents increasingly represses talent - or ‘charisma’, for the spiritual cost of educational patents is always slight and does not particularly decrease with mass production (p. 676). — Theodor W. Adorno, The Culture Industry, 153

Categorization

Category: Factual Claims

• XREF: Weber’s ‘educational patents repressing charisma’ is a site to test whether credentialism in today’s culture reproduces Adorno’s administered standardization.