"Under monopoly all mass culture is identical, and the lines of its artificial framework begin to show through. The people at the top are no longer so interested in concealing monopoly; as its violence becomes more open, so its power grows. Movies and radio need no longer pretend to be art. The truth that they are just business is made into an ideology in order to justify the rubbish they deliberately produce. 121 "
An interesting, apparently anonymous
series of contemplations on culture, adorno as the main man and only critic, and the increasing "culture of barbarity".