The music hall, the Crystal Palace. One watches it, and one may watch critically. A refined public in the old sense scarcely exists. One cannot despise those who include one s own children. Mass culture and affirmation.
Some people are able to use it to secure affirmation, it represents their own affirmation.
Mass culture, democracy, still succeed in creating depression, a depressing morality of the weak. In saying it attacks strength, it attacks a personal idea of strength, in ability to do anything, a morality which leads to prefer the worse to the better. Am 271 Art of Being Ruled . The first part is confusing, the book gets much better as it goes on. The middle part you feel what he says is fine, but insufficiently defended.