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The Ideological Crucifix Family programming has been a staple of American television for many decades. Banks make a significant portion of their profit, if not most of their profit, from home loan mortgages. Other corporations also benefit from family television programming by instilling all of the classic bourgeois desires of commodity fetishism, greed and envy, and exclusionary property rights. A particular scene can be decoded in a myriad of ways. The television producer, or in this case, the film director's, job is to create an entire illusionary world in which the family viewer is programmed into the myth of bourgeois Capitalism and state control. Perhaps the most important scene for this analysis is the final arrest of Harry and Marv, in which the repressive arm of state capital is depicted as just and righteous, as the heroic saviors of our Capitalist, family friendly fantasy land. We are led to believe in the idyllic dream of safe, happy family life under the banner of a just and reasonable legal code. Are Harry and Marv even believable characters? What did they seek to gain for themselves by robbing a house? They are driven to madness and pointless aggression agaisnt a child instead of simply leaving and deriving a more sensible plan. Any real man, even the most desperate for money or food, would have changed his plan. We are left with caricatures of non-home owning proletariat as desperate, easily enraged, and idiotic. The fantasy world of Home Alone extends far beyond the McCallister house. Indeed, it is an extension of the fantasy lands of past television and movie scenarios. The ideological crucifix upon which we hang is this very fantasy land. We have become so indoctrinated by television fantasy that we can no longer see clearly the reality of class struggle or of worker exploitation. The images have existed for so long and have set themselves so deeply upon the collective unconscious of our brothers that we can only paw and scratch at the backs of their deluded minds with appeals for pity and basic egalitarianism. We live in a world so completely controlled by monetary policy and Capitalism that it is now impossible to live outside of the bounds of society, which means it is impossible to live without the threat of state violence. Which is the greater problem in society? Home burglary or the oppressive state? 40% if not more of our tax dollars go to funding a mammoth military-police complex and the United States arrogantly engages in several wars of aggression every year. We hang here, on this ideological crucifix, slowly starving to death without the real sustenance that we need, the truth! These lies and these fantasies are destroying society. Those who benefit, the bankers and the head of corporations, are funding the continuation of these lies. They have so many allies, so many that work to spread delusion to the masses, so many that go about this work as the most serious business, that it seems impossible to overcome its sway. For what media is left in which to spread the truth? Film and television are the most indoctrinating, but even the printed word is left in ruins, and on the internet, we find so many opinions and so much information is available that this is out best method of uncovering truth, but there is no clear way forward, no clear leader, no clear movement towards a new ideological realm or a new enlightened populace.
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