The film has succeeded in transforming subjects so indistinguishably into social functions, that those wholly encompassed, no longer aware of any conflict, enjoy their own dehumanization as something human, as the joy of warmth. The total interconnectedness of the culture industry, omitting nothing, is one with total social delusion.
Theodor AdornoThinking no longer means anymore than checking at each moment whether one can indeed think.
Theodor AdornoIn the end, glorification of splendid underdogs is nothing other than glorification of the splendid system that makes them so.
Theodor AdornoThe objective tendency of the Enlightenment, to wipe out the power of images over man, is not matched by any subjective progress on the part of enlightened thinking towards freedom from images.
Theodor Adorno