Kayla Salyer Horkheimer and Adorno Reflection

Reflecting back onto Horkheimer and Adorno, there is much that I can see in my day to day life. Something that stuck with me was the quote "To be entertained is to be in agreement". I found this fascinated because I can see it happening all around me, even I do it. The idea behind this is that one individual can find something interesting and entertaining if a group of people do. We are followers, we will find excitement or entertainment in things if others do themselves Relating back to my last post, we can see that this agreement leads to sameness. If we are blindly following the group, we will become that group of sheep; not asking questions nor thinking for ourselves. This only encourages the lack of originality and authenticity.
Leading this in another direction, we could say that this would make us powerless. It gives us a lack of a voice, a lack of our own individual opinions, and a lack of personal power. This powerlessness can be seen, in an obvious way, in our media. Amusement makes its way to the front of powerlessness. We joke at what we cannot change, because we feel helpless in such a way that we must find something to follow, some group that will make it better, because it will numb the horrors of the world. Not only do we become numb to the tragedies, but they also become routinized.  Tragedies become statistics we hear in the background of the news. We stop imagining the lives of people we are bombing, we stop picturing the children of the dying soldiers, we only see them as meaningless numbers fixed into the pixels on our screens. We hear them only as soundbites on the radio, as we go about on our day-to-day lives.
Although we live in a world where tragedies surround us in everything we do, we can not see them all. We cannot live our lives in constant fear, sadness and anger at the unforgiving world. Yet we should not escape from the horrors, through the horrors. We cannot make fun the starving children, to help us forget that our lives, and others lives are filled with tragedies.

"Today my body was a TV'd massacre, made to fit into soundbites and word limits."

The video above expresses many very important things, yet relating to Horkheimer and Adorno, I want to express the importance of the quote above. I want us to realize how the deaths of hundreds, thousands of people becomes soundbites and word limits.