In Modleski's discussion of various stock characters found in all soap operas, she draws special attention to the villainess. In contrast to the other characters, with whom, in spite of their weaknesses, the spectator is encouraged to sympathize, the villainess is one we can despise without restraint. A vengeful schemer and vicious manipulator, she ( Read more... )

The notion of being an 'American' is ideological to the extent that it is employed to dissimulate class, ethnic, and economic difference. The reification, 'America,' in this sense, is the abstract community where the powerful and the powerless dissolve their corporeal antagonisms in the phoney commonality of the nation ( Read more... )

Those most vulnerable to the dissimulation of incongruity would likely be individuals who have an impared capacity to distinguish their own needs from the demands of a coercive environment. Forced to falsify, to themselves and others, their beliefs, perceptions, and desires, they become insensitive to conflict and contradiction and thereby ( Read more... )

Apparently not all sailors wanted radiation exposure to be part of their "Navy Adventure" and required some gentle persuasion ( Read more... )

Controlling the perception of conflict. Newspeak. Bureaucratic oxymorons. Corporate group therapy. Social pacification ( Read more... )

The view that ideology is a consequence of the mode of production itself is succinctly stated in Marx's famous dictum: "The call to abandon their illusions about their conditions is a call to abandon a condition which requires illusions ( Read more... )

the way things go. You must at all costs examine construction-creation-reconstruction backwards/in reverse. The universe is composed primarily of concepts working in reverse. The large retracts the small. But construction by all means is only a small probably ultimately insignificant ( Read more... )

1. Do you know the first names of your employees ( Read more... )

27. Owing to the very success of this separated system of production, whose product is separation itself, that fundamental area of experience which was associated in earlier societies with an individual's principal work is being transformed - at least at the leading edge of the sytem's evolution - into a realm of non-work, of inactivity. Such ( Read more... )

My loyalties have shifted to my corporation or institution as the owner of my life, well-being, and energies; indeed as my real family ( Read more... )