The rage and disappointment that are evident in the way this text is written are explained by the hope that the authors placed in culture's potential for resistance. However, it was not popular culture that concerned them, which was to elude being taken over in industrial manufacture - they were nostalgic for the autonomous elite art with its independence from the efficiency logic of the bourgeois society, from which they expected potential resistance.
La colère et la déception, qui paraissent à travers l'idée centrale de ce texte sont dues à l'espoir perçu par les auteurs dans la capacité de résistance de la culture.