In so far as the culture industry arouses a feeling of well-being that…

Theodor Adorno
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In so far as the culture industry arouses a feeling of well-being that the world is precisely in that order suggested by the culture industry, the substitute gratification which it prepares for human beings cheats them out of the same happiness which it deceitfully projects.
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