Images of Ideology
by Nick Mehedin from Sullivan County, NY
Capitalist Ideology, pervasive, inescapable, and invisible, prioritizes individualism over social welfare. This ideology is a political project that mystifies and subdues public animosity towards the ever-increasing and dramatic differences in material wealth. It functions by subverting the inherent contradictions of capitalism by reflecting them inward, internalizing its failures onto the individual, rather than the systemic structure that created and perpetuates such inequalities. American culture has become a barbarous landscape of the self. This project explores manifestations of this Ideology through the lens of my home, Sullivan County, NY.
