ENG237H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Make America Great Again, Kleptoparasitism, Shakespearean Comedy
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In 2312, earth is a dystopian world, it"s a mess by its own doing, by its own inability to imagine and produce a utopia: the people of earth don"t understand this fact, they refuse to see it. From the end of the postmodern (charlotte"s date derived from the un announcement of climate change) to the fall into crisis. Disappearance of arctic summer ice, irreversible permafrost melt and methane release, and unavoidable commitment to major sea rise. Early lunar bases, scientific stations on mars. robinson, kim stanley. The ideas expressed in ideologies tend to function to perfect the illusions that a class has about itself and typically function to mystify, for all classes in that society their self-understanding, and their understanding of social reality. The mystification typically functions in such a way that is protective of the society"s economic structures, and with that, of the interests of the ruling class.
