what Nietz-sche had attacked as Enlightenment violence masked as order, and sadism as compassion, was not limited to European fascism but also could be found in what they termed the American “culture industry.” Writing just a few miles outside Hollywood, they claimed that in advanced industrial capitalism, culture became a commodity that aimed to entertain, not elevate, and in doing so, purposefully dulled modern man’s consciousness of himself and blinded him to the gross inequities around him.
