And then there were none (books, that is)
Conservatives and capitalists, the few who are remaining, better get used to this word: hegemony. Hegemony is what leftists have long accused conservatives of imposing on their societies. The cultural hegemony of capitalism, argued Italian neo-Marxist Antonio Gramsci, among others, features a ruling class that maintains power through social institutions rather than with overt force. In other words, capitalists don’t need to enforce capitalism when it’s the accepted way of doing things.
Over decades that infiltration has successfully taken place, and now the hegemony is on the other foot. Our institutions, public and private, now stand against and subvert the endeavours and values they once existed to pursue. Universities oppose open inquiry and the search for truth, and instead indoctrinate. Large corporations denounce capitalism, and instead embrace the notion that the job of business is to seek social good.
Perhaps every age thinks it is pivotal. The First World War was tagged as the War to End All Wars, and then we had another one. But at least in each of those wars we knew who the enemy was. Now we are infected with a virus from within. When the human body attacks its own cells and tissues, we call it an autoimmune disorder. A society cannot long stand when its people and institutions reject its own history and legitimacy.
If we are willing to acknowledge it, the road we are travelling is no mystery. As Christie’s Hercule Poirot said, “The truth, however ugly in itself, is always curious and beautiful to seekers after it.” But you can’t make people see. “They have to come round in their own time,” Bradbury wrote in Fahrenheit 451, “wondering what happened and why the world blew up around them.”
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