Friday Philosophy

Theodor Adorno (1903-1969) was one of the founders of the Frankfurt School of social research and critical theory. He wrote extensively on the culture industry and music, and perhaps most famously offered (along with Max Horkheimer) a controversial explanation for the rise of Nazism in The Dialectic of the Enlightenment. Some of that explanation is evident in the following quote:

“There are no more ideologies in the authentic sense
of false consciousness, only advertisements for the
world through its duplication and the provocative
lie which does not seek belief but commands silence.”