Status Updates From جدل التنوير: شذرات فلسفية

Fun is a medicinal bath which the entertainment industry never ceases to prescribe. It makes laughter the instrument for cheating happiness. To moments of happiness, laughter is foreign; only operettas, and now films, present sex amid peals of merriment. But Baudelaire is as humorless as Hölderlin. In wrong society laughter is a sickness infecting happiness and drawing it into society’s worthless totality.

The pernicious love of the common people for the harm done to them outstrips even the cunning of the authorities. … It calls for Mickey Rooney rather than the tragic Garbo, Donald Duck rather than Betty Boop.

Very very pessimistic but I find myself agreeing to their description of the instrumentation of pretty much everything…maybe except for the media part.

I think this is the first philosophy book that I read which contains 2 authors.

So far only read the required chapters for class. I’ll complete the last chapter one day.

forgot to update yesterday (yes this is me lowkey having a uni crashout lol)

The superiority of nature in the competitive struggle is repeatedly confirmed by the very mind which has mastered nature. All bourgeois enlightenment is agreed in its demand for sobriety, respect for facts, a correct appraisal of relative strength. Wishful thinking is banned. The reason, however, is that all power in class society is beset by the gnawing consciousness of its powerlessness in face of…

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