On your blog, try to summarize the understanding Adorno and Horkheimer have of how the culture industry shapes human sense of self and possibility.
I think Adorno and Horkheimer believe the culture industry both teaches and responds to the sense of self that humans have. It shapes their possibilities by defining what is desirable and what is available, and if what we desire defines who we are, then it shapes who we are as well. I don't think this is new to the culture industry, necessarily, except in shaping what we desire economically.
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