Repetitive standardized mass culture automatizes reactions and weakens individual resistance.

Evidence

Above all, this rigid institutionalization transforms modern mass culture into a medium of undreamed of psychological control. The repetitiveness, the selfsameness, and the ubiquity of modern mass culture tend to make for automatized reactions and to weaken the forces of individual resistance. — Theodor W. Adorno, The Culture Industry, 213

Categorization

• DEFINE: Gives the precise mechanism connecting standardization to psychological automation — the load-bearing causal chain for the reader’s analytical project.
• XREF: connects to: Mass-produced culture reduces individuality to a stamped counterfeit detail — Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment, 117; Mass culture abolishes the individual’s lived history, reducing life to disposable instants — Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment, 185; Against a system demanding meaning-production, the masses’ passive conformity is the superior resistance. — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 291 (+2 more)