ObamaSama

I do agree but would prefer to say that the disbelief still exists, it just becomes reflexively directed outwards. When someone who is fully bought into ideology is confronted with contradictions it’s the external evidence that is somehow wrong. The disbelief is always still there but their conviction to ideology is strong enough to deflect and refuse to engage honestly with anything that questions it. Consuming the ideology, of course, comes as naturally as breathing but in the context of fiction such things can be examined and engaged with from a more comfortable perspective. You are examining a fictional world where you can at least pretend to be a neutral observer free from the ideological convictions of that world. By putting up sci fi themed wallpaper we are able to ever so slightly distance ourselves from the reality that the fictional ideology presented is simply a mirror of our own and explore various contradictions without truly confronting our own ideological convictions. I think the degree to which fiction is “grounded” is simply a tool to help the audience distance themselves from their ideology a tiny bit more but the most important thing is that it’s all still fiction where discussion and examination of ideology can exist without disrupting the viewer’s own personal beliefs.

Idk I’m just spouting bullshit in the badposting comm, I’m still like a little baby when it comes to understanding ideology

But if all media is a reproduction of ideology it’s still the same no? Something more “grounded” is still built upon innumerable fictional meta narratives that we convince ourselves to believe every day. Something more fanciful and “out there” is still built upon the exact same things and merely adds some superficial differences like putting up a different color of wallpaper. Not to be all about it but I think those are all just different aesthetic presentations of the same thing that require an equal suspension of disbelief