Ideology… who rules us?
This piece ironically made me think about the religious or spiritual concept of free will. If our lives are ultimately ruled by these totalizing meta-narratives, even if we are acting on our own accord, there are societal standards of living that rule us, control our actions. I like how you expressed the idea of false consciousness. These ideologies are so discreet that we do not even realize that we are reacting to them at such an intense level. With a greater understanding of this, perhaps we can try to live like Lyotard wants us to and stand up against these restricting ideologies and wage war on totality.
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When reading some of the other classmates blogs i also thought of "who rules us?"
Ideology "hails" us, which constructs us by assigning names, positions, labels to us so that we will respond or answer by accepting what is going on. Just as teacher expect students to do our homework- men expect women to the house hold work. however, men may not want to do things that women are "expected" to do because it takes away from the manly power or masculinity.
here, i go back the thought that ideology "invisibly" rules our society.
sorry that was from Elizabeth Byrne -althusser
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