We can define a repressive State Apparatus as a way to control the population beaver and make sure they fallow the ideology. Established by the ruling class to make people act against their interests. Repressive State Apparatus can be seen as an institution controlling through fear. It applies this fear through the police, the courts, and the prisons. Indeed, we can see that Althusser calls it repressive since the repressive State Apparatus controls what people do by using force and restraint.
We can define an Ideological State Apparatus as the way the ruling class tends to enter the population mind to control their beaver and make sure they fallow the ideology. For that, they established ideology preventing status quo changes with school politics and mass media. We are taught from the beginning to stay in our place. By fulling people and making them think they have a choice, the ruling class is able to maintain the population from going out of the line. But in fact the choice a pretty similar.
The difference between Repressive and Ideological State Apparatuses is mostly in the way they are being applied. Ideological State Apparatuses is a way they have of entering our mind to train us. The first thing we learn with that is the fear of Repressive State Apparatuses those are mostly applied with force. There is also a difference in the time they are being applied ideological State Apparatuses comes first as the Repressive State Apparatuses come only if the ideological one didn’t work.
Shows and tournament is an Ideological state apparatuses which has existed for centuries, it is a way of keeping people in their place and preventing status quo changes. It makes people forget about their situation…
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Hey Arthur,
I love the example of the images you have chosen. The images are like a before and after of how society is still entertained by events like these without knowing that they are ideological apparatuses. In my opinion I don’t think that we should quit engaging in entertainment but we should also pay more attention to our surroundings.
Hey Arthur,
I love the example of the images you have chosen. The images are like a before and after of how society is still entertained by events like these without knowing that they are ideological apparatuses. In my opinion I don’t think that we should quit engaging in entertainment but we should also pay more attention to our surroundings.