"The reason why people can actually do so little with their free time is that the truncation of their imagination deprives them of the faculty which made the state of freedom pleasurable in the first place. People have been refused freedom, and its value belittled, for such a long time that now people no longer like it. They need the shallow entertainment, by means of which cultural conservatism patronizes and humiliates them, in order to summon up the strength for work, which is required of them under the arrangement of society which cultural conservatism defends. This is one good reason why people have remained chained to their work, and to a system which trains them for work, long after that system has ceased to require their labour."
- Adorno, The Culture Industry (via hyperbanal)

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Sep 30, 2018
cwote: “ This is so much easier said than done and can sound pretty corny, but at the end of the day, you need to be confident in who you are and what you’re doing. Your past happened, but you can make your future whatever you want it to be! ”

cwote:

This is so much easier said than done and can sound pretty corny, but at the end of the day, you need to be confident in who you are and what you’re doing. Your past happened, but you can make your future whatever you want it to be!

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Aug 31, 2018
cwote: “ If we don’t fit a certain mold, we are encouraged to idolize others and not love ourselves. You are worth loving a thousand times over :)) ”

cwote:

If we don’t fit a certain mold, we are encouraged to idolize others and not love ourselves. You are worth loving a thousand times over :))

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Aug 31, 2018