Weapons of Mass Deception and the Power of Consciousness
- Category: Academic
- Client: University of Washington
- Project date: 21 August, 2017
- Project URL: https://ghost.io
In 1950, the Frankfurt School augmented Cultural Marxism with Theodor Adorno's idea of the 'authoritarian personality.' This concept is premised on the notion that Christianity, capitalism, and the traditional family create a character prone to racism and fascism. The purpose of their strategy coined "Critical Theory" was to convince society to question everything about traditional Western culture, making everything essentially 'not real'.