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Ok, one final thing. " "H&A claim that different levels of our intellectual formation 'do not so much reflect real differences' as provide something for everyone 'so that no one can escape.'" is a cop out. Plain and simple. We have media conglomerates who supposedly control the culture industry. Music, film, literature, that is created outside these conglomerates are not part of the culture industry. Notice that the paper isn't called "Culture", it is called "Culture Industry." Forces, such as indie film studios or indie record labels can work outside the culture industry.
Also, if the whole point of the culture industry is to homogenize culture and make people stop questioning their needs, then how can you argue that even cultural industry critics are inextricably trapped in the system? We are not homogenized compltely and we do question our needs. As a matter of fact, I go way further... I question other people's needs, a much more damning blow to a supposed overwhelming hegemony.
So, to reiterate, ""H&A claim that different levels of our intellectual formation 'do not so much reflect real differences' as provide something for everyone 'so that no one can escape.'" is an unfair statement. It covers all bases and crushes dissent more thoroughly than any conglomerate can. What are these two authors if not men who have escaped the culture industry in order to write a Marxist diatribe valorizing the proletariat while criticizing their choices?