War Of Position

I was reading about Gramsci and cultural hegemony.

He observed that, “Reality is defined through words. Therefore, whoever controls the words controls reality.”

When one group gets its ideas accepted as common sense by society, if everyone thinks the same, then there’s no need to use force: control is already in place.

Gramsci opposed the 'war of manoeuvre' and the taking of power by force, with the 'war of position' which is the slow and cultural war of ideas.

Those who control ideas, control power.

Everybody seems to be involved in their own culture war these days. 

And when that doesn't work, they hit each other.

Everything Will Not Be Better Tomorrow

Simplexity

How come, with everything now making our lives simpler, everything now seems more complex?
I call it simplexity: a complex simplicity. (I know, but ‘complicity’ already exists…)
Everything obviously does not make our lives simpler if it makes it more complex. This is because simpler does not equal less complex. In fact, simpler now usually equals more complex. It may be simpler for me but the mechanics will be more complex. I press a button and the car window goes down. I press a button and I call a friend in a China. So it is simpler for me to do more things but I have less understanding of how the things are done. And when the things break down then I have no clue how to fix them.
So everything is not making our life simpler, we are simply introducing more things -complex things- into it allowing us to do ever more things.
God, I miss the good old days when things were simple and we missed the previous good old days when things were even simpler...