IWTL I Want To Learn

If you want to dig in really deep, Horkheimer and Adorno wrote about the “Culture Industry” in the mid-20th century and how even outside of working hours, we are still forced to perform a sort of labor in the consumption of media through our leisure time, movies, tv, music, etc. It’s not so much manipulation of the obvious media like news and such, but a far more subtle mechanism that tells you not only what to desire, but how to desire. The whole thing may be more complicated than you want, and this was a very reductive summary, but I find it to be prescient even 75ish years later.