The Culture Industry

from Do The Good by The Project Matter

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I borrowed this title from an essay by Theodor Adorno, and though I wouldn't fully agree with all of his positions, I do believe that the idea of Culture's control of the masses and how that plays out is certainly worth thinking about.

I would say Culture is a separate entity from society, a principality perhaps? (Cosmos, Andy?) It doesn't really exist(or need to) outside of the masses, but is not subservient to them either...etc.

Here though, I have definitely taken a philosophical position on reality, both western and ultimate, but also a position of hope and desire for a way out.

Sub-cultural industries also, often, concern/disgust me, particularly the Christian Culture Industry :) They should know better. That's pretty much what I was thinking of in regards to the coda.

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and the culture calls to stymie and suppress loss
dangled carrots in a maze, control, it costs
we're captive and alike, yet not homogenized
and we cannot deviate from our prescripted fate?

to be called out of the winding
make straight, make straight the way

distract and quantify, the mechanism's in place
how many, how much, how long--desires to placate
and though in the mire we're found,
our hope rests on solid ground
in troubled times and warnings,
love abounds

here sitting outside and the lost, not found
weigh down upon my mind
will the light go out? or grow dim inside?

contemplate a new day, a new horizon
is rising up out of the signs
and all the sounds that make up the all around

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from Do The Good, released June 22, 2010

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