Roger and Me

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Two specific kinds of power, hegemony and ideology were displayed constantly throughout the movie Roger and Me. Ideology is our basic assumptions about how things are, or how they should be. Hegemony is the hidden power of society and encompasses the power of rules, standard operating procedures, and routines. The only way for any of these kinds of power to work would be that someone is dependent on something someone else has which is in …

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…as well. In place there was a dangerous ideology of thinking: that when times are good they are there to stay. This thinking can set up a town like Flint for even more devastation than would have normally occurred. As stated in the beginning, dependency makes power possible. Certain ideologies are unavoidable and dangerous. The good times may be here but they don't always stay for long. Opportunity knocks but is not a lengthy visitor.