The bastard form of mass culture is humiliated repetition... always new books, new programs, new films, news items, but always the same meaning. (Roland Barthes)

The bastard form of mass culture is humiliated repetition... always new books, new programs, new films, news items, but always the same meaning.

Roland Barthes

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