Today in class we discussed why society does not question simple tasks and habits in our life; instead these habits/acts are deemed as “natural”. The question is, how did we learn to live naturally? I believe we all have different hobbies, habits, rituals, and certain qualms about us that explain where we are from and how we were raised not only by our parents but by the society surrounding us. For example, my friend from England cannot stand the fact that I say “yall”…in his culture they say “you all”. It’s not that I chose to say yall because I thought it sounded cool, it’s simply the way I learned language from my parents and society around me.
“Those who are in ideology believe themselves by definition outside of ideology”. (48)
Althusser is making another great point with this quote, that also helps explain my example above. We are ALL from and submerged into different ideologies… whether one is born out in the country on a farm or in NY city, chances are they will be saturated with a unique ideology that was formed based on who they surrounded themselves with and what’s natural in their society. If for some reason no one abided by a type of ideology…our world would be completely different. It would be full of chaos, there would be no order, probably no class structure—things would be more stressful and hectic.
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You make some good points here and share some good examples. However, you should expand on your ideas, your post is on the shorter side.
-Starfish
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