"For a long time now they have taken the handiwork (music, writing, criticism, etc.) of intellectuals who share in their profits - that is, of men who are economically committed to the prevailing system but are socially near-proletarian - and processed it to make fodder for their public entertainment machine, judging it by their own standards and guiding it into their own channels; meanwhile the intellectuals themselves have gone on supposing that the whole business is concerned only with the presentation of their work, is a secondary process which has no influence over their work but merely wins influence for it. [...] Their output becomes a matter of delivering the goods."
Bertolt Brecht, Brecht on Theatre: The Development of an Aesthetic, ed. and trans. John Willett (New York: Hill and Wang, 1992), p. 34.
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