The reality principle is itself the highest form of ideology
Evidence
The important thing to point out […] is that the reality principle is not some kind of natural way associated with how things are, to which sublimation would oppose itself in the name of some Idea. The reality principle itself is ideologically mediated; one could even claim that it constitutes the highest form of ideology, the ideology that presents itself as empirical fact (or biological, economic…) necessity (and that we tend to perceive as nonideological). It is precisely here that we should be most alert to the functioning of ideology. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 990
Categorization
- XREF: Echoes ch33 ‘Class assumptions form a tenacious core programming that resists empirical disproof’ and ch9 ‘Bourgeois class interests serve no one’s genuine interests’. — connects to: The reality principle itself is ideological — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No…, 39; An ideology in its highest sense is a world-conception permeating all social life — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1186; Ideology is real practice dislocated from, not fantasy opposed to, reality (+6 more)
Broader Connections
- An ideology in its highest sense is a world-conception permeating all social life
#expands(0.85) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1186 - Ideology appears as manifest surface while its real foundations are hidden
#corroborates(0.85) - Ideology functions as signification that attains societal validity and justification
#expands(0.85) — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 819 - Ideology is real practice dislocated from, not fantasy opposed to, reality
#qualifies(0.80) - Mass ideology must be distinguished from its great philosophical cornerstones
#responds-to(0.80) - The fundamental form of power is defining reality
#expands(0.80) — James W. Carey, Communication as Culture- Essays on…, 387 - Totalitarianism introduces unprecedented concepts of power and reality
#complicates(0.75)