As the good Doctor has said many times, the culture is the key…part one of a continuing series. Most folks on this site are aware of how our thinking, history and ideas have been hijacked, but a brief synopsis for those unacquainted….
… another angle on the Architecture of the State, Culture and Control …
https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/althusser/1970/ideology.htm
“By 1943, this system was so well established that the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) explicitly outlined its strategy in a now-declassified document.”
I was not aware of this. I’d always assumed the OSS was not a part of this hence its replacement by the CIA.
Will you be following this and posting part 2 here? I hope so.
Thanks for the post @Bill10558 !
Here’s the author’s Substack link, follow up for updates. I am.
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@Scarmoge
Could this be titled ‘A Justification of Cliques’? I like to boil things down and see what’s left aka the lowest common denominator. My little pea brain doesn’t comprehend much higher than that. 10 minutes in and I couldn’t see the forest for the trees. 
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… sure I guess in some sense. I actually posted this because it makes explicit the individual arms of the State Apparatus … what are referred to as ISAs.
From the piece …
"I shall call Ideological State Apparatuses a certain number of realities which present themselves to the immediate observer in the form of distinct and specialized institutions. I propose an empirical list of these which will obviously have to be examined in detail, tested, corrected and re-organized. With all the reservations implied by this requirement, we can for the moment regard the following institutions as Ideological State Apparatuses (the order in which I have listed them has no particular significance):
- the religious ISA (the system of the different churches),
- the educational ISA (the system of the different public and private ‘schools’)
- the family ISA
- the legal ISA
- the political ISA (the political system, including the different parties),
- the trade-union ISA,
- the communications ISA (press, radio and television, etc.),
- the cultural ISA (literature, the arts, sports, etc.)."
Just a place to start thinking about the materialist aspects before one starts considering the
bigger notion of Reality Construction.
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Currently reading this little jewel… seems to be an excellent outline discussing the do’s and don’t from “way back when” on getting to where we are today and what to expect.
And this guy’s essay on metaphysics, quite an eye opener.
FYI….part 2 just posted.
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FYI. PART III
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Great. I did too. Never heard of him before stumbling upon his work.
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An outstanding series here, thank you for pointing us to it!
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Excellent articles, the body positivity madness and covid inversions of logic show how these psychopaths farm the masses.
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