It is important to remember when doing the rest of the readings for this semester that we are focusing on concepts which we refer to as Ideotexts and Politexts. So what's the greater narrative that Chomsky and Herman argue?
Well, I'm unsure if I even know what is going on. I mean, WOW! this is one of those readings that burst your "I think I'm ready to face the evils of the world" bubble because you aren't. I honestly thought I already understand what is happening to our world, modern or post-modern. I mean, after all, the media merely sends “messages and symbols to the general populace…to amuse, entertain, and inform, and to inculcate individuals with values, beliefs, and codes of behavior that will integrate them into the institutional structures of the larger society” (257) right?
Apparently not so... My awareness regarding (post)modern society revolves around money, and when I mean revolve it is more like orbiting. I try to grasp the concept of real and virtual - yes, I understand the notion of video games but what about the stock market? All these huge figures of numbers are discussed and civilians who invest fret over this, however, what is supposed to be backed up by a stable currency (gold) is not even with us in reality. So, does this boil down to how the stock market, as in our economy, is an illusion because it is a mere concept???
So, everyday, we live our lives worrying about bills - or uh, the thing we use to exchange for more things...they're just mere ideas for more ideas? I mean, if you think about it, what is money but a face and some numbers printed on paper? Why do we toy with this notion of the real and the unreal or surreal?
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