spaghetti, Focault

     I found this particular assignment difficult to understand and very different in nature from the other readings we have done in CMC300.  From what I could gather from it, however, I was reminded of Horkheimer & Adorno's notion of sameness.  When thinking about this concept, I remember a scene from the book A Wrinkle in Time where the characters visit a community where everyone does the same thing at the exact same time.  Little children play outside and all bounce their balls on the ground simultaneously.  Mothers come out side of the house and call the children in for dinner at the same time.  This particular scene had a kind of eeriness about it which has stuck with me (or has made an.....impression, if you will......) since i read it.  I was reminded of this in light of the image that Focault presents of the people having everything determined for them.  It's representative of how we do as well even in today's society, as Horkheimer and Adorno would point out.  We merely have the illusion of choice, and we attempt to identify ourselves through those choices we make, but the reality of it is the choices we make are between essentially the same options which are determined by a higher being.  Therefore, everything really is, in Horkehimer and Adorno's opinion, already determined for us by a higher power, bye the ruling elite, by the few all-powerful super conglomerates.  therefore, there is not much discrepancy between this picture Focault paints and the view of today's society that Horkheimer and Adorno write about in their essay we studied last unit.  The arguments are very similar, and yet the approaches and writing styles differ greatly.  i think perhaps that is why I had trouble understanding this reading more than other--simply because I am not used to the style Focault employs in a CMC context.