The benefits, of course, are huge. The threat, though, is that those who have an interest in maintaining the antinomic situation are also aware of it. We said earlier that it does not matter if a problem can be resolved - in the example of Achilles and the tortoise. But failure to resolve other situations can be far worse for those under them - while it is not in the interest of those governing those states to end their contradictions. In 1936 in a letter to his friend Walter Benjamin, Adorno said that High Art and pop art are the torn halves to an integral freedom, to which, however, they do not add up.
Venues hold larger and larger crowds.
The crowd itself is an increasingly common phenomena. The individual matters less and less, and can own less and less unique to him- or herself. The Dome Which brings us to The Dome as the an epitome of opposing forces - the one place where the many must come together in an experience which is not unique. In times of increasing wealth, individuals have less opportunity to buy objects uniquely. And our society relies on this antinomy between its proclaimed belief in the value of the individual and its inability to give each person anything of individual existence.