Talks · 20 Jul 2018Education: can the Beautiful be learned?- 17:09His formula about the car being any color as long as it's black illustrates the illusion of choice; his portrait hung in Hitler's office.
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Dominique Pagani mentions Henry Ford in passing, mostly to recall a fact that he repeats in the same terms from 2015 to 2024: Hitler kept Ford's portrait in his office and was his main admirer in Europe1. In 2024, he calls Ford Hitler's "idol"2. This reminder comes up in sessions on current politics, notably the one on neo-fascism and the ideology of desire, which deals with Clouscard3, and in a question-and-answer session on the dominant language4. He also quotes a saying of Ford's: a car in any colour, so long as it is black. He uses it to illustrate the illusion of choice in a session on education in the beautiful5. Finally, in a Musicosophie session on modern music, he mentions the Model T as a car within everyone's means6. The passages go no further than these mentions.
Summary produced automatically from 7 of the passages below, to be reviewed; the numbers link to the moment in the session.
Henry Ford (July 30, 1863 – April 7, 1947) was an American industrialist and business magnate. As the founder of the Ford Motor Company, he is credited as a pioneer in making automobiles affordable for middle-class Americans through the system that came to be known as Fordism. In 1911, he was awarded a patent for the transmission mechanism that would be used in the Ford Model T and other automobiles. […]
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