> The idea that the culture is being set, and being done with intention, is not a conspiracy.
> One shortcut way to understand what hegemony is is to think of it as "who sets what common sense is and how?"
Oh, I absolutely agree
For example, in 1991 Colorado Republicans introduced and passed House Bill HB91-1292 * , the Colorado Communist Interest Ownership Act (C.C.I.O.A., Colo. Rev. Stat. § Title 38 Article 33.3) , as part of their plan to replace communities with corporations.
The bill, now law, refers to H.O.A. corporations as "common interest communities". This Orwellian language has infested public policy in both the legislature and the courts for the past 30 years.
This communisty associations propaganda has worked so well that even the most ardent of Ayn Randians will fall on their swords to protect the (literal, not figurative) collective ownership of private property.
* I'm sure it's just a coincidence that the bill's prime sponsor, Mike Coffman (R), owned a property management company at the time.
> there is a (minor--right now) movement afoot to have some animals declared "non human persons".
Why not?
John Adams said that “Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other" (October 11, 1798).
Yet the Ideological Right has spent decades pimpin' and simpin' and cuckin' for Constitutional rights for corporations, which are neither moral nor religious nor people. And declaring that anyone opposed to corporate personhood are "idiots" * .
At this point, what difference does it make if dolphins and elephants are allowed to vote?
* e.g., Jon Caldara, president of the Independence Institute ("Colorado's Free Market Think Tank"), quoted in "Occupy Wall Street boosts Boulder’s ‘corporate personhood’ ballot measure", Daily Camera, October 13 2011.
In response to the Occupy Wall Street movement, conservative commentator Bill Whittle suggested that we emulate the Khmer Rouge and march liberals out to the countryside to re-educate them ("Three and a Half Days", PJTV Afterburner, October 12 2011).
Personally, I've had more hate and vitriol directed at me from the Ideological Right for my position on homeowner associations than I ever did from the Ideological Left during my 25 years as a card-carrying member of the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy ™ .
F--- the Polis.
When he was my Congress Critter, I met him person about half a dozen times.
He lied to my face for years, before finally telling me to f--- off and die. He didn't use that exact phrase, but his message to me was clear.
> The idea that the culture is being set, and being done with intention, is not a conspiracy.
> One shortcut way to understand what hegemony is is to think of it as "who sets what common sense is and how?"
Oh, I absolutely agree
For example, in 1991 Colorado Republicans introduced and passed House Bill HB91-1292 * , the Colorado Communist Interest Ownership Act (C.C.I.O.A., Colo. Rev. Stat. § Title 38 Article 33.3) , as part of their plan to replace communities with corporations.
The bill, now law, refers to H.O.A. corporations as "common interest communities". This Orwellian language has infested public policy in both the legislature and the courts for the past 30 years.
This communisty associations propaganda has worked so well that even the most ardent of Ayn Randians will fall on their swords to protect the (literal, not figurative) collective ownership of private property.
* I'm sure it's just a coincidence that the bill's prime sponsor, Mike Coffman (R), owned a property management company at the time.
> there is a (minor--right now) movement afoot to have some animals declared "non human persons".
Why not?
John Adams said that “Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other" (October 11, 1798).
Yet the Ideological Right has spent decades pimpin' and simpin' and cuckin' for Constitutional rights for corporations, which are neither moral nor religious nor people. And declaring that anyone opposed to corporate personhood are "idiots" * .
At this point, what difference does it make if dolphins and elephants are allowed to vote?
* e.g., Jon Caldara, president of the Independence Institute ("Colorado's Free Market Think Tank"), quoted in "Occupy Wall Street boosts Boulder’s ‘corporate personhood’ ballot measure", Daily Camera, October 13 2011.
In response to the Occupy Wall Street movement, conservative commentator Bill Whittle suggested that we emulate the Khmer Rouge and march liberals out to the countryside to re-educate them ("Three and a Half Days", PJTV Afterburner, October 12 2011).
Personally, I've had more hate and vitriol directed at me from the Ideological Right for my position on homeowner associations than I ever did from the Ideological Left during my 25 years as a card-carrying member of the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy ™ .