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Ariel Dorfman argues that industrially produced fiction plays a crucial role in shaping our emotions and intellect. These narratives, often seen merely as entertainment, provide profound lessons on violence, fashion, and societal roles. Beyond surface-level enjoyment, they educate us on success, love, consumerism, and conformity, teaching us how to avoid rebellion. As these stories infiltrate our daily lives through various media, they subtly shape our perceptions and actions, impacting our understanding of both the past and the future.
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Ariel Dorfman’s Claim “Industrially produced fiction has become one of the primary shapers of our emotions and our intellect in the 20th Century.”
Although these stories are supposed to merely entertain us, they constantly give us a secret education. We are not only taught certain styles of violence, the latest fashions, and sex roles by TV, movies, magazines, and comic strips; we are also taught how to succeed, how to love, how to buy, how to conquer, how to forget the past and suppress the future. We are taught, more than anything else, how not to rebel.” (pp. ix in Dorfman.)
