"Mass Culture". Its Aggression in the West and Attitude Towards Us

The concept of "mass culture" has long been used in the bourgeois press (and recently increasingly in the socialist press), functioning in a different sense, which further increases misunderstanding and makes people skeptical about the problem itself. Perhaps the most widespread use of this concept is in a narrower (aesthetic) sense - as a qualitative, mainly negative characteristic of cultural production for everyday mass aesthetic consumption without special artistic and intellectual claims or merits, emphasizing its impersonality and stereotypedness, uncreative way of creation, conveyor-type processing, mass distribution, easy consumerism and short life.