STEVE-O idylic ideologies...?

So where to begin my hail….
I would like to start my subjugation of subject with this quote, “the tradition of all the dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brain of the living” (C 34). This seems like a recurring theme of Postmodernism…the return to some concept of the past…a Nostalgic mode—a New Historicism—a tradition soon to be reinterpreted…Postmodernism seems never far off or completely apart from the Modern, it seems… Habermas-like... a high-Modernism or extension thereof.

The idea “that ideology is a gigantic masquerade” (C 34), is very Simulacric. Even more consuming in the ideology of ideology is the notion of false consciousness. This illusion can connect us to the Fakeness of Disney…or the precession of Simulacra or the panoptic mechanism…I think all our theorists are desperately trying to convince us that there is a material UNMATERIAL…a matrix which we all believe, put that under erasure, which we all have no ability to comprehend due to the subjective nature of consciousness or maybe our unconscious reactions to the things which we can’t see. Our response to the Trace of the past, the present, the future all of which have been temporalized to a breaking point (breakdown of the signifying chain) which has us wondering what is the differAnce… Do we “agree to be led through explicit, active and conscious choice or is a less premeditated and conscious acquiescence or non-resistance sufficient?

All I know is that the R.O.G. is the hegemonic power, and I must obey his commands…err…requests, for we would not want to see him get violent.


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