The cliché now gives birth to the culture that keeps people from what matters

Evidence

Karl Kraus compressed that fact into the thesis that today the phrase gives birth to reality–especiallytothatrealitywhicharose,afterthecatastrophe,under the name of culture. To a great extent that reality is … only there to keep men away from what is of importance to them. — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 1011

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Mass culture reproduces subjects already shaped by systemic coercion rather than influencing them — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 716; The culture industry converts bare existence into a substitute for meaning and right — Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment, 114

Broader Connections

• The culture industry converts bare existence into a substitute for meaning and right #expands (0.82) — Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment, 114
• Mass culture reproduces subjects already shaped by systemic coercion rather than influencing them #corroborates (0.78) — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 716