Proletarian language is dictated by hunger. The poor chew words to fill their bellies.
Theodor AdornoThe power of the culture industry's ideology is such that conformity has replaced consciousness
Theodor AdornoThere is something embarrassing in... the way in which, ... turning suffering into images, harsh and uncompromising though they are, ... wounds the shame we feel in the presence of the victims. For these victims are used to create something, works of art, that are thrown to the consumption of a world which destroyed them.
Theodor Adorno