Post Class for 3/23/10 King Kriggle

Well after an interesting discussion today in class we once again came upon my favorite topics in CMC and those would be the ISA,RSA, and the good ol concept of ideology. For this blog i just wanted to focus on a few things, first of all the quote doc gave “you can never escape ideology”. This is very interesting to me because of how true it really is. I think back to the Punk movement and how i had mentioned in class that originally it was a subculture with its own ideology and then became a counter culture that was merely doing the mirror opposite of the hegemonic ideology of the time. These glory years of 75-78 were short lived. Yet I was very into this entire movement for a good deal of my adolescence and finally into college until one day i sat down and thought about the entire thing. It was while watching a very good movie called SLC PUNK, at the end of the movie the main character (who had blue hair, bad attitude, and was completely punk to the core) realized that in being a punk and trying so hard not to conform he had actually conformed to another set of rules. His outfit was not expression, it was a uniform. The counter culture dictates that you curse, have crazy hair, wear ripped up clothes, and generally dont act educated. He realized that in doing all of these things he had become a poser and had conformed to that set of ideology, which was the exact opposite of what he was trying to do. this shows that no matter what you do you are trapped in some ideology. I assume that would mean the only way to truly escape ideology would be to move out to the middle of nowhere and live as a hermit, but then again you would probably be following the ideology of the Yeti or something of the mix haha. Seriously can anyone think of a way that you could completely escape ideology, maybe Captain Nemo did or something, who knows but it definitely brings up an interesting debate and should make you look at yourself in the mirror a little differently now.