ABSTRACT
While the previous chapter provided little more than a sketch of the way ideology operates on and influences one's consciousness and the way one sees the world; there was enough in that sketch to suggest fairly strongly that, as individuals, we might never be able to escape the prevailing ideologies of our time and place. If this were so, then we could be regarded as victims of our social-historical circumstances, who in certain situations might have little alternative but to see the world in the disguised and distorted form in which it was misrepresented to us, or in which we misrepresent it to ourselves.
