ENGL 153 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Netflix, Dawning Information Industry, False Consciousness

• School: UBC Okanagan, UBC OK
• Department: English
• Course: ENGL 153
• Professor: George Grinnell

Document Summary

I was a communist when i was a kid . How does from the graveyard of the arousal industry work with some of these ideas. They often have and they continue to do so! Perhaps the unfairness of our social organization is not obvious for all to se. Marx theorize that every society develops an ideology that explains reality and helps to. Reproduce of the modes of production, which is to say, reproduce the status quo. Marx referred to ideology as false consciousness or the state of experiencing a reality that excludes or distorts important details. It is as if there is a veil covering reality. Ideology is a narrative, but we have forgotten that it is a just a narrative. We regularly mistake the narrative for the natural order of things . The directive that hard work yields success is an ideology that can ignore complexities around opportunity and access.