07/10/2002 Archived Entry: "The Hegemonic Process"

This is the way hegemony works. I propose that we use the concept not to understand consent but to understand struggle, the ways in which the words, images, symbols, forms, organizations, institutions, and movements used by subordinate populations to talk about, understand, confront, accomodate themselves to, or resist their domination are shaped by the process of domination itself.

What hegemony constructs, then, is not a shared ideology but a common material and meaningful famework for living through, talking about, and acting upon social orders characterized by domination (Roseberry, The Politics of Difference, 1996:81).

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Hegemony leads to monopoly and monopoly leads to lies. I attach here the lies that Wall Street Journal printed on the California Governor's race on July 5:

http://www.opinionjournal.com/diary/?id=110001954

Here is a quote from the Wall Street Journal which is perhaps as corrupt as the Wall Street analysts themselves:

"In four months, Californians will vote on whether to re-elect Gov. Gray Davis. Although he trails Republican Bill Simon by as much as nine points in private polls taken by both parties,"

...and guess what the actual result is:

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2002/07/11/MN184694.DTL

"Despite Gov. Gray Davis' problems with a state contracting scandal, a budget deficit and criticism over his fund-raising tactics, California voters reluctantly give him a 7-point lead over Los Angeles businessman Bill Simon, a Field Poll released today shows."

The WSJ prints lies and innuendos without backing up with data, not very different from the Wall Street analysts who pushed Enron and WorldCom even as these coporations were going down. Are you really surprised with Enron and Worldcom fiascos?

Posted by G.C. Raj @ 07/11/2002 12:03 PM PST