10-26 ideology

Ideology..... I liked our class on Thursday when we were talking about Ideology. It is hard to hear sometimes that everything is constructed a certain way and our views on something have been taught to us and not learned. The Ideology of the "American Dream" is one that has been taught to us our life. The idea that "we" can be anything that we want to be when we grow up is false. Most people in America will not have a chance to be the President of The United States. There are too many factors that go into being the President but unless your family is in a higher tax bracket or you go to a prestigious Ivy league school. The ideology of an immigrant from central America to come here and become a millionaire is an ideology. It works with sports most of the time. There is an ideology in sports that if you work hard that you can make it to the Major Leagues. The percentage of college baseball players to play in the Major Leagues is less than 3% I believe. For myself, I have been engraved by this ideology that anybody can make it to the big leagues. There are so many people that come from nothing to actually make something of themselves through sport. This ideology can affect us in how much I let baseball or sports take over my life. Ideologies are socially constructed and I believe it is very necessary to be aware of the ideologies and how they work in or for our culture too not become to engulfed in them. Kind of like the Matrix. Where each day we get up and do the same thing over and over but truly never stopping to see the world and why we are just going along with the flow because that is what society wants us to do.