Coherent ideology

[Deleted member 28]

I feckin' loved it's a knockout!

Ah, not the one who worked with Eddie Waring and Phil Rouge then.....

It wasn't funny the first time!

 

[Cirrus]

Do most people care, or even understand such things? Here's a snippet from a review of essays by Stuart Hall.

'We are all perplexed by the contradictory nature of Thatcherism,' Hall notes. The perplexity, however, arises only because of what he calls 'the illusion of the intellectual - that ideology must be coherent', whereas a really successful ideology works by binding all sorts of contradictory things together: 'It does not reflect, it constructs a "unity" out of difference.' It calls to hopes, fears, prejudice, ambitions, and gradually, more and more people hear something that seems to speak to them, and form a new, unified entity, 'the British people'. Thatcherism is 'addressed to our collective fantasies, to Britain as an imagined community, to the social imaginary.

Parklife

 

[presta]

Do most people care, or even understand such things? Here's a snippet from a review of essays by Stuart Hall.

'We are all perplexed by the contradictory nature of Thatcherism,' Hall notes. The perplexity, however, arises only because of what he calls 'the illusion of the intellectual - that ideology must be coherent', whereas a really successful ideology works by binding all sorts of contradictory things together: 'It does not reflect, it constructs a "unity" out of difference.' It calls to hopes, fears, prejudice, ambitions, and gradually, more and more people hear something that seems to speak to them, and form a new, unified entity, 'the British people'. Thatcherism is 'addressed to our collective fantasies, to Britain as an imagined community, to the social imaginary.

Blimey, Hall's gone a bit upmarket since It's a Knockout.

 

[theclaud]

Blimey, Hall's gone a bit upmarket since It's a Knockout.

Don't people ever check upthread before posting the bleedin' obvious gag that it's a dead cert someone has already posted?

 

[Fab Foodie]

Don't people ever check upthread before posting the bleedin' obvious gag that it's a dead cert someone has already posted?

Yebbut, TMN to me :-)

 

[Ian H]

Don't people ever check upthread before posting the bleedin' obvious gag that it's a dead cert someone has already posted?

From each according to their abilities.

 

[qigong chimp]

Everyone's playing their Joker this round.