Ideology, a subject we discussed extensively in class yesterday. [btw, i still have yet to see minority report] Ideology is supposedly a "collection of ideas" that shapes the way you perceive things. It's constantly changing, evolving, and developing. So then, who can tell which ideology is wrong versus the other.
David Hawkes said that "ideology is a false consciousness." In other words, we come to see a person the way he/she present themselves. According to Hawkes, most often this representation is insincere. He argues that people act a certain way to meet a certain requirement or to gain something in return.
So then if ideology is "false," then no one is right. If one's ideology about cellular phones are just one's own ideas and bias or a false representation of one's self, then that ideology is "false."
My co-worker just said that ideology is only "false" when we don't or choose not to see why we believe or act in a certain way. When we construct ourselves a false image for economic gains or social advances or when we choose to believe in a faith that we have no idea why we believe, is a false ideology. So then, how can an ideology becomes real?
I personally believe that all ideology is real because whether you're believing in something just because someone told you so or you're dressed a certain way to fit in, you still believe and act towards an ideology. Thus, it is real, because it's reality. However, I believe, that the ideology of thinking that this is the only way we can act, or this is the only thing I believe in, that there is no other ways to construct an idea or thinking, then this ideology is false. [I hope I made sense there]
Ideology by itself is a very complex topic and I am still struggling to understand it. I think I reached the conclusion that someone might think this is totally false and my ideology of ideology is all wrong. But whose to say whose wrong? I think the awareness of one's own ideology and acknowledging that it can be false is the realest or most genuine ideology I can think of.
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I have written this in several other comments to posts this week, but you will need to change the style and tone of your posts because they read too informally. You need to write with the mentality that the post is a formal submission for a class assignment. Therefore, instead of writing "[btw, i still have yet to see minority report]" you should write about what you did see in class and use this as a text to discuss in further detail the complexities of ideology. I am not sure I can even address your thoughts on ideology here given your lack of examples or evidence. As it is, the post is too general and abstract. You need to bring this much closer with examples, either the texts we discuss in class or those that you discover on your own. Your co-worker is not adequate evidence unless you contextualize this a bit more. What was your conversation with him or her? How did the topic arise?
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