What is the point in which we all becomes slaves to a system, walking zombies whose only goal is to make our oppresive bosses richer.
According to Louis Althusser, it is the point in which our government or controling body has the ability to forever remove the person from that which he produces. In a way, in a capatalist system we are what we produce. A person does not fit into society if their is not a part of himself that he can sell. We go to college to find our interest and eventually turn it into a lucrative money making machine. This is the cycle that we all live in. However it is only a select few who reep the direct rewards of their labor, others have been perfectly sown into the fabric of society as worker drones for the hive. This, according to Althusser is upheld and recycled through two apparatusses.
The Oppressive State apparatus is created as the muscle behind this beautifully oiled machine called capatlism. It is the law that sets in motion a series of reprocutions, standards and limits. This apparatus creates an ideal person that “easily” adheres to a set of morals, and codes of ethics as though it comes naturally. However, such and apparatus does not leave room for those that do not fit in this mold of easy living, most need to be programed to accept this way of life.
Thus the Ideological State Apparatus arises to answer the call for a proper brain washing. This apparatus focuses on breaking down these morals into learnable traites, that apear almost untracable. It teaches us to think out side of the system, but always in reference to. The self is never really distinguishable from that identity that the system has placed upon a person. Therefore, each ideology that we build ourselves on has been manufactured through the lense of this oppresive society that teaches us to continually be in the prostitution buisness. Each ideological apparatus may seem as though it is working in different spheres, when in all actuallity it is a bricolage of ideologies. They all manipulate and play off of one another, diverting the center of each sphere.
So how do we break free of a system that in a way has calculated each way in which we may break free of the system. It is though it eats us whole, gobbling our souls and selling it back to us in the form of media. Tricking us that we are living these ideal lives that we have manufactured for them.
