Date: Fri, 7 Jun 1996 03:48:16 -0400
From: ostrow-AT-is2.NYU.EDU (Ostrow/Kaneda)
Subject: Re: Re Megamolith and Terminator Vs. Hollywood


Jay writes.

      I think that you're probably
>assuming that my views are close to Marcuse's in One-Dimensional Man in
>which he exaggerated the power of Bourgeois ideology to the point that
>there were only a few artistic transcendental souls in the world who weren't
>duped by it. This is also similar to Adorno's view.
>        I much more agree with Marx' original view of ideology as quick
>patchwork jobs done by a ruling class to keep class contradictions from
>turning into violent confrontations.  These patchwork jobs like fingers
>in the damn do the job in the short run, but eventually the damn breaks
>anyway.
>        While the rulingclass loves to see its ideology as all powerful
>and seamless, it is certainly filled with contradictions and the tendency
>to unravel at the slightest examination. On the other hand, it
>is professional and slick and does tend to confuse and pacify an
>important section of the oppressed.

Maybe it would help you guys if you thought about ideology as analogous to
an  operating system and all these other practices as applications.




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