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![a new commodity was devised: ersatz culture, kitsch, destined
for those who, insensible to the values of genuine culture, are
hungry nevertheless for the diversion that only culture of some
sort can provide.
Kitsch, using for raw material the debased and academicized simulacra of genuine culture, welcomes and cultivates
this insensibility. It is the source of its profits. Kitsch is
mechanical and operates by formulas. Kitsch is vicarious
experience and faked sensations. Kitsch changes according to
style, but remains always the same. Kitsch is the epitome of
all that is spurious in the life of our times. Kitsch pretends to
demand nothing of its customers except their money-not
even their time.
The precondition for kitsch [..] is the availability [..] of
a fully matured cultural tradition[..] It borrows from it devices, tricks, stratagems, rules of thumb, themes, converts them into a system and discards the rest. It draws its life blood [..] from
this reservoir of accumulated experience.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:tz2mbeciygifilnnojl5j7im/bafkreihxxgljlmgskmk77rfbok7vb7kao52zicpbj4kbjmiejxsvyjadvu)
