Adorno and Another Brick in the Wall

We discussed in class last week how Adorno leaves very little room for existence outside the culture industry. "The only choice, " he says," is either to join in or to be left behind: those provincials who have recourse to eternal beauty and the amateur stage in preference to the cinema and radio are already--politically--at the point to which mass culture drives its supporters" (148). What such outsiders say, he continues, can be attacked as ideology. The only options then seem to be participation in the culture industry--whether tacit or active--and marginalization. And being an outsider is "the most mortal of sins" (150).

In "Another Brick in the Wall", however, Pink Floyd does leave open the possibility of becoming outsiders, of outright rebellion. The students can rise up, destroy the schoolhouse, and seize the evil schoolteacher. But even though this event seems couched somewhat as a student's daydream, I wonder what is supposed to happen after this dramatic break with the order of things. What do these students do next? Their subjection is surely not restricted to their school or this teacher; presumably, that treatment has trickled down from elsewhere. So, what happens next? Are they, as Adorno would say, tattooed with the death mark of "outsider"?