It is interesting that both the conservatives defending the classic view of human nature and some of the socialists of the Frankfurt School, while having fundamental disagreements, described this new phenomenon in similar terms, and were equally alarmed by the extent to which the human mind was degraded and enslaved by what was claimed to be an extremely pleasant, unproblematic, but somehow superior form of freedom. Both groups feared that the hegemony and omnipresence of entertainment might effectively dilute a sense of the seriousness of existence as well as the type of mindset that gives
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