ginger griffin 3/18

Yesterday in class we talked about the ruling class and about how we thought the ruling class was by looking at different signs. "Signs become the arena of class struggle." This was a quote given to us during class and then was followed up by many different pictures and we were asked to decide which one we thought was the ruling class of the two. The first pictures were Mercedes vs. GM and my initial reaction was that Mercedes was the ruling class, but after thinking about it I came to believe that GM was the overall ruling class. I feel that the ruling class and the dominant class are the same thing. Is it not the ideas from the dominant class in which we follow? I am teetering on this idea because after I thought about that I started to think about an example that completely negate my previous one. I'm thinking about actors and actresses and what they wear and how they act and that reflects on what we wear and how we act. Actors and actresses are most certainly not the dominant class, they are the minority and we reflect upon them. My point is that maybe it is not the dominant class that is the ruling class and that I am still completely confused about the entire concept.
Aside from being completely confused about that concept, one concept I did understand was that OBVIOUS means that which is obvious to you becomes the dominant ideology. What is obvious? How did it become obvious? At which point does it switch over in your head to become obvious? This is a concept that I have never thought about until yesterday but now I understand that concept.