Habermas argued that the protests were against ‘the statesmen ruling in our name’ and called for a plebiscite on the army being equipped with nuclear weapons
as though love were a full comprehensive insurance policy that could protect both parties from the vicissitudes of the real world of loss and disappointment
Fromm writing about marriage (after his wife died)
For Habermas, the inherent aim or telos of language was to reach understanding and bring about consensus
how the culture industry could be aberrantly, even rebelliously, decoded by its mass consumers and that popular sub-cultures might subvert the culture industry in a form of immanent critique
on Adorno's refusal to see popular culture as anything other than an affirmation (as opposed to a resistance)
Perhaps such cartoons are emblematic of the Hegelian master–slave dialectic, and suggest the instability of the existing power relations rather than confirming them.
on Tom & Jerry and Roadrunner lol
