This supports Theodor Adorno’s cultural view on how the consumption of the easy pleasures of popular culture, is manipulating society into passivity, ultimately making people docile and lazy. In "Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception" Adorno stresses the fact that culture industry uses an assembly-line mentality when generating cultural products such as songs, movies and television programs. This is highly visible in the recycled formulas for the plots of films and television shows splayed across our screens, which allows them to be effortlessly digested by audiences (Adorno and Bernstein, 2001). Adorno’s statement that “The power of the culture industry 's ideology is such that conformity has replaced consciousness” (Adorno and Rabinbach, 1975) can be related back to television in how the programs broadcasted don’t require any intelligence or input which ultimately dumbs us
This supports Theodor Adorno’s cultural view on how the consumption of the easy pleasures of popular culture, is manipulating society into passivity, ultimately making people docile and lazy. In "Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception" Adorno stresses the fact that culture industry uses an assembly-line mentality when generating cultural products such as songs, movies and television programs. This is highly visible in the recycled formulas for the plots of films and television shows splayed across our screens, which allows them to be effortlessly digested by audiences (Adorno and Bernstein, 2001). Adorno’s statement that “The power of the culture industry 's ideology is such that conformity has replaced consciousness” (Adorno and Rabinbach, 1975) can be related back to television in how the programs broadcasted don’t require any intelligence or input which ultimately dumbs us