Status Updates From Dialectic of Enlightenment

Fun is a medicinal bath which the entertainment industry never ceases to prescribe. It makes laughter the instrument for cheating happiness. To moments of happiness, laughter is foreign; only operettas, and now films, present sex amid peals of merriment. But Baudelaire is as humorless as Hölderlin. In wrong society laughter is a sickness infecting happiness and drawing it into society’s worthless totality.

The pernicious love of the common people for the harm done to them outstrips even the cunning of the authorities. … It calls for Mickey Rooney rather than the tragic Garbo, Donald Duck rather than Betty Boop.

Very very pessimistic but I find myself agreeing to their description of the instrumentation of pretty much everything…maybe except for the media part.

I think this is the first philosophy book that I read which contains 2 authors.

So far only read the required chapters for class. I’ll complete the last chapter one day.