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Distorted Ideology

First off, apologies for the slightly late post. It has been a day... 

There is a quote from one of the Hall chapters that has stuck with me since reading it, "In a world saturated by money exchange, and everywhere mediated by money, the 'market' experience is the most immediate, daily and universal experience of the economic system" (37). The high school students I teach in Solon will often express the desire to "make a lot of money" when they are older without thinking deeper about why money is their desire. My question: How is money a flawed ideology or gap in the way we conceptualize lived experience in our society?

The other question is focused on Hall's analysis and critique of Marx's "false consciousness:" How is it possible for people, who are living their relations to their conditions, to not realize their ideology is distorted? What methods or lived experiences exist to create acceptance of a flawed or distorted ideology?

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