<P> Horkheimer and Adorno contend that industrially produced culture robs people of their imagination and takes over their thinking for them . The culture industry delivers the "goods" so that the people then only have left over the task of the consuming them . Through mass production, everything becomes homogenized and whatever diversity remains is constituted of small trivialities . Everything becomes compressed through a process of the imposition of schemas under the premise that what's best is to mirror physical reality as closely as possible . Psychological drives become stoked to the point to where sublimation is no longer possible . </P> <P> Movies serve as an example . "All films have become similar in their basic form . They are shaped to reflect facts of reality as closely as possible . Even fantasy films, which claim to not reflect such reality, don't really live up to what they claim to be . No matter how unusual they strive to be, the endings are usually easy to predict because of the existence of prior films which followed the same schemas . Also, for example, erotic depictions become so strong and so pronounced that a transformation to other forms is no longer possible ." </P> <P> The aims of the culture industry are--as in every industry--economic in nature . All endeavors become focused on economic success . </P> <P> Authentic culture, however, is not goal - oriented, but is an end in itself . Authentic culture fosters the capacity of human imagination by presenting suggestions and possibilities, but in a different way than the culture industry does, since it leaves room for independent thought . Authentic culture does not become channeled into regurgitating reality, but goes levels beyond such . Authentic culture is unique and cannot be forced into any pre-formed schemas . </P>

Which of the following summarizes what theodor adorno referred to as the culture industry