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  • FunkyStuff [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    1 year ago

    He performs the function just by the law of large numbers stating someone, somewhere, is gonna have the views and motivations that are convenient for hegemony. Hegemonic institutions can do their part to get that person a platform larger than the anti-hegemonic position’s, so he performs his function without ever being handled directly (except by epstein? I think we’ll never really know, but I doubt Epstein was giving him any direct instructions).

    • a_blanqui_slate [none/use name, any]@hexbear.net
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      1 year ago

      Yeah but there’s no ‘hegemon’ as such; this model is all evolutionary and stochastic, where the hegemony is distributed and emergent, so while I think it’s okay of the context of the model to say he has some ‘effect’ that reinforces certain power structures, it’s not correct to say he has that ‘function’.

      Sort of like saying the ‘function’ of mushrooms is to decompose organic matter. That’s what they do, but no one put them there to do that.

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        1 year ago

        Huh, well I’ve definitely heard lots of sentences like that, so I guess we’ve just read different texts. Not much reason to argue semantics here.