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Today's episode is part six on the Frankfurt School.

I hope you love the show today.

So hypothetical situation.

Let's say you listen to the last five episodes on the Frankfurt School.

Let's say you took it upon yourself to do a little more research on your own,

and let's say you pulled up an overview of all the works Herbert Marcos I ever produced.

What you would see, and the supplies to many of the key players in the Frankfurt School at the time as well,

what you would see is a very clear, repeated presence of books and essays

concerned with the subject of art and aesthetics.

Now seeing that is going to be kind of confusing at first.

Like, why would that be the case?

I mean, if the task of the Frankfurt School was to find out what went wrong during the thinking of the enlightenment

to examine the effects of advanced capitalism in the West,

to try to figure out why the revolution Mark's prophesized never came,

if that's your goal, why are you wasting even a second of your time

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