The Culture Industry (10/24) Pre Class

The Culture industry readings this week had a lot of quotes that I liked and found true. ”Culture today is infecting everything with sameness” This is true for a lot of things, Most media outlets are the same thing, report the same news after of course spinning it to whatever business or party they are affiliated with, this also happens with most products these days. When my friends and I debate the differences between the IPhone and the Droid both products are relatively the same except for a few minor spec and a big fat logo. I felt in the readings the pushing of ideas society’s notions to keeping its media average to keep things popular or keep consumers buying. The article discusses our media’s ready-made established clichés, and banalities. It talks about the predictability in music, books and movies. This is definitely true check out the trailer for [Movie Trailer] I bet within seconds if you dont look at the title you know exactly what’s going to happen, just based on simialr trailers and movies you have seen. A quote I really liked was “The Whole World is passed through the filter of the culture industry” this is true in the way that we remember, learn and compare things. This is like the example of the girl comparing her past relationships to the romantic comedies she’s seen, or the first date to that of which she saw in the flick