The triumph of advertising in the culture industry is that consumers feel compelled to buy and use its products even though they see through them.
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What can oppose the decline of the west is not a resurrected culture but the utopia that is silently contained in the image of its decline.
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.
Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future.