Response to Class Dismissed

While watching "Class Dismissed: Media and it's Representation of the Middle Class" I was overwhelmed with the amount of repition and submission that media networks demand from the consumer. It is this unconscious brainwashing of the television consumer (mainly the workers) that leaves popular culture at a loss for identity and accurate cultural representation. When connecting these points addressed in the documentary to television programs I have watched in the past, it is this "bufoon blue-collar male" that dominates most popular television series. The Simpsons, King of the Hill, Family, all are examples of such, and also are all shows I have watched countless times. People return to these shows and the ideas they express time and time again, not paying attention to the horrible effect this can have on one's own loss of identity and submission to the controlling elite of prime time networking. This then also intertwines with the Marxist article, defining the political economy and the capitalist thirst that feeds these images to the popular demand. Another point I found interesting within the documentary was how the “working class” has fed into the ideal of identifying as middle class, in order to stifle the unwanted title the working class has come to mean. Yet, as explained, this delusion of a middle class portrayal is in fact not at all what the majority of the population truly represents. I found this part of “Class Dismissed” critical to broadening the knowledge of those who continue to be brainwashed and feel more “comfortable” identifying with the middle class, when this is not reality.