Nichole 3-27

It is a pretty wild concept to think that we do not have any control over what we do anymore. Chomsky says that our decisions everyday are influenced and sometimes made entirely as a result of the media. Media outlets like the newspaper, magazines, daily news and television programs encode behaviors that will (they hope) influence consumers to partake in “institutional structures of the larger society”.
The ultimate hegemon, has the power to dictate what people will subscribe to. I am still guessing on who this might be but now I thinkg it is the highest producers and directors of the aforementioned media portals, most likely the people most educated (also the first on Chomsky’s list of systemic Propaganda: concentration of media ownership concerning size and wealth). This is perhaps also the derivative of the term “cultural schizophrenia”. Which we decided in class means that we are blurring the line between reality and what is fake. This also plays into the other term that we discussed in class “historiographic metafiction” which basically describes the means in which directors make a film “more realistic” by adding a historical character in order to set the time and place of the film better. The movie Factory Girl with Sienna Miller as Edie Sedgewick incorporates Bob Dylan into the film to better set the mood of the film. The addition of the fake Bob tells the reader that this is an artistic, wealthy crowd in the peak of the new movement of the 60s. I think that the play write does a good job when readers get this cultural schizophrenia because it means that the reader got lost in the film and forgotten that it is not possible to have the real person in the film, which happened with me while watching Factory Girl.