“The culture industry: enlightenment as mass deception” is a chapter of the book by Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer “Dialectics of Enlightenment” and delves into the conflicts presented by the “cultural industry”. Adorno claims that the culture industry is a main phenomenon of late capitalism, encompassing all products from Hollywood films to advertising, and even extending to musical compositions. Adorno is very careful in preferring the term “culture industry” to “mass culture”, to specifically distinguish it from the fact that it should not be understood as something that arises spontaneously from the masses themselves. The products of the cultural economy take on the appearance of art but in fact depend on industry and the economy, in the sense that they are subject to the interests of money and power and produce profit "The whole world passes through the filter of cultural industry". For Adorno, artistic production and consumerism are driven and shaped by the logic of capitalist rationality, meaning that consumer products are created based on what will sell best.....