hegemony
Today's word is hegemony. It has been stuck in my acoustic playback for weeks now, maybe if I purge it here it will go away. It's not a very useful word, really. Or at least, apparently it is useful because I find it strewn across all sorts of articles, but I think it's one of those words that serves mainly to up register rather than convey anything especially revelatory.It means ' The predominant influence, as of a state, region, or group, over another or others.' So a kind of power relationship, except potentially manipulative and perhaps covert? Not sure really.
A better definition in my opinion would definitely involve hedges. Can
you imagine a moaning hedge? No thats not very convincing, is it. How
about the power of hedges to hem in certain areas? Crop circles might
be a related effect. Hedges ae a big pain in the countryside; there are
too many of them in Dorset.
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