I couldn’t help but feel a chill run down my spine as I read Althussures piece on state apparatuses, it reminded me so much of the framework of our American social systems. Our government works on both playing feilds with the RSA as our public policies and foreign relations and the ISA as our national policies. And in todays presidency our ideological majority is no longer hiding behind our repressive nature but is right front and center weilding our might against all those who appose us.
According to Althussure the ISA usually hides behiind the RSA, showing the international communities a unified body of Americans rooting for this idea of the ideal American. While behind the scenes it is the ideological majority that rules our privatized life, whom in our capatalist system have control of our public relations with the rest of the world. At first while reading Althussure I saw them as separate entities, but for the most part the ISA and RSA use the same tactics. So what happens when we have an entitiy that controls both, leaving the minority ideologies powerless to be apart of and represent a fascist nation of centuries of opppression?
I agree that the obvious success of the ISA and RSA indoctrination is rather frightening. While we said in class that there’s a means of escaping it through realizing the structure, I’m afraid that because we have been trained in the ideologies so well that we would be unable to conceive of another option. This article really made me feel like I was reading a conspiracy theory newspaper. Unfortunately, there’s no conspiracy.