As Bertolt Brecht remarked, recorded in conversation with Walter Benjamin (p.97): “There can’t be any doubt about it any longer: ‘the struggle against ideology has become a new ideology.’” This struggle has continued until the twenty-first century and does not seem likely to be resolved any time soon. In the realm of aesthetics, it is most commonly witnessed as the struggle between art which is committed and art which is aimed at pleasing the masses (and which is often mischaracterized as high-brow versus low-brow art).
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