Pleasure in standardized charms turns to disgust at their sameness

Evidence

The reactions to isolated charms are ambivalent. A sensory pleasure turns into disgust as soon as it is seen how it only still serves to betray the consumer. The betrayal here consists in always offering the same thing. Even the most insensitive hit song enthusiast cannot always escape the feeling that the child with a sweet tooth comes to know in the candy store. — Theodor W. Adorno, The Culture Industry, 98

Categorization

• CANDY: The candy store betrayal line is a compact, tweetable image of how manufactured pleasure curdles.
• XREF: Directly relevant to ‘differentiation as product feature’—the reader’s stated testing apparatus for post-Adorno culture. — connects to: Manufactured desires create ever-deepening dissatisfaction even when satisfied — Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism, 210