Core Response 4, FT

 Morris' dismissal of the model of television thought that seems to offer no exit from the , as Morley calls it, banal conclusion that "people in modern mechanized societies are complex and contradictory; mass cultural texts arecomplex and contradictory; therefore people using them produce, complex and contradictory culture'", rung true to me at first, simply stating that things are complex and contradictory seems both obvious and a dead end.  Morley's pinpointing of where this dismissal arises from, an over-abstraction that disregards specificity, drawing to the argument that where the specificities exist at the same time must be considered (domestic ritual/ideological), clarified for me what misgivings i had about the dismissal of a 'dead-end' thought as being banal. The conclusion of the sentiment that contradiction breeds contradiction being put aside carries with it a deeper rejection of the thought. It's banality for me, doesn't read in the summation of Morris as being from its obviousness or close-circuited nature but as an effort to decentralize the importance of contradiction as without conclusion. By focusing on specificities, one engages with contradiction on its own terms, not with a purveying attempt to ease out the contradictions through abstraction and reduction to one core chain of contradiction.