How Power REALLY Works: Understanding Gramsci's Cultural Hegemony 

Thank you! This video really resonated with me and my understanding of power structures and the world. I really appreciate your sharing it.

Great video and very important message. Thank you!

love yo essay

Great video!

Same as "Gleichschaltung."

Theories based on good vs bad leave a lot of room for bias and interpretation depending on the vantage point of the storytellers of history. These stories are therefore overwhelmingly subjective, and therefore appeal to the emotions of an audience. *On Reciprocity between Systems and Strategy:* The theory is a systemic analysis which is overwhelmingly neutral and objective and is therefore a dull topic to most people on the planet. At its core level, the theory states that throughout history there were two opposing forces in action when it comes to the concept of gain. All other human interaction when it comes to the topic of gain are subject to this. These opposing forces are not the commonly held truism as being the forces of good vs. bad/evil, but rather those forces which wish to unite to create their own systemic concord, using a variety of techniques, and those forces which gain from division, using a variety of techniques of power. What evolves out of that as causal chain of events is then the friction, which is created as these opposing forces collide, which then fosters the emergence of narratives of good and evil, by providing the catalyst (human nature). Note: words have definitions and meanings and context matters, not only when it is beneficial from their own standpoint. *Every single struggle for power ever, every single crisis about a man-made system ever, and every single war ever, has arisen out of these two opposing forces of concord/discord (causality).* Anybody may of course try to find exceptions to this rule, and will find none, unless one engages in typical human behavioral patterns. Name the struggle, and one can point out whether it arose out of the attempt to create concord, or discord. Every single good vs. bad narrative ever has arisen from this very simple axiom. *On Reciprocity between Systems and Strategy:* At its most fundamental core, the theory states that where there are intentions by systems to create unity, the opposing forces to such unity, or systemic actors, would then try to divide observed forces of unity, using key strategies, and vice-versa: where intentions of trying to create division are observed by actors trying to create unity in systems, key strategies are employed to overcome these divisions, to achieve unity in a system. These take place at the same time, making a timeline difficult to assess, contributing to the favoring of pleasing narratives for own causes, as a way of convincing large numbers of people. The tier of interaction is irrelevant, and where there is an intention of achieving systemic gain, the strategies will closely resemble each other: from the micro- to the most macro level of all: International Relations.

Is there anything we didn't know yet in the first eight minutes of this video? Should I go on listening? Can someone make a positive comment about something they learned from it. Curious.

Leading question in the title... problematic. Joseph Campbell wrote brilliantly about this from a religio/mythoogical perspective.

Your video IS cultural hegemony. You're larping as counter culture but this video is pure pro establishment propaganda. It's like you read one book and didn't care to examine further