From French Marxist critic Louis Althusser, noting the authority mechanisms utilized by rulers in the past:
"The reproduction of the relations of productions is secured [or to say w/o using Marxist jargon, the way the rulers enforce their rule] . . . by the ideological superstructure [which includes the educational and religious systems]."
"The Ideological State Apparatuses . . . [work toward] the reproduction of the relations of production [i.e., they exist to make you conform to the system of those in power]."
"They [religious authorities] forged the Beautiful Lies so that, in the belief that they were obeying God, men would in fact obey the Priests and Despots."
In other words, people in every culture have recognized for centuries that in order to ensure obedience from your underlings, it's very useful to add divine sanction to your words.
It's a very useful authority mechanism: If you disobey anything I say, you're not just disobeyng me--you're disobeying God.
Posted by jonsligh at February 11, 2006 04:41 PMi think americans are too stubborn for that to work anymore, n'est pas?
Posted by: pizza & caffiene at February 13, 2006 09:36 AMI would agree, though I think that the brainwashing does occur through the zealously secularist educational system. But yes, America is a little too stubborn these days to be taken in by deviously religious politicians. That skepticism is a good thing. America's obsession with questioning authority is not entirely bad. I think America's problem is that we just swap one spurious authority (power-mongering religious officials)for another (since when does Dave Matthews know squat about politics?)
Althusser also argues that we have traded our unquestioning obedience to the dominant religious order for unquestioning obedience to the secularist public educational system that operates under the guise of "neutrality"--as devious as the first spurious authority.
Posted by: sligh at February 13, 2006 09:53 AMif what you meant by your last paragraph is that "we" have been brainwashed to accept no authority but that which excuses us from submitting to authority, i concur.
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