The stereotype substitutes for real nourishment in cultural production
Evidence
In spite of all the progress in reproduction techniques; in controls and the specialities, and in spite of all the restless industry, the bread which the culture industry offers man is the stone of the stereotype. It draws on the life cycle, on the well-founded amazement that mothers, in spite of everything, still go on bearing children and that the wheels still do not grind to a halt. This serves to confirm the immutability of circumstances. — Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment, 114
Categorization
- DEFINE: Nails the role of the stereotype: not mere simplification but active confirmation that circumstances are immutable.
- XREF: connects to: Mass production reduces judgment to blind subsumption under stereotypes — Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment, 161
- yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Mass production reduces judgment to blind subsumption under stereotypes — Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment, 161
Broader Connections
- Mass production reduces judgment to blind subsumption under stereotypes
#expands(0.80) — Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment, 161