A subfield focusing on the psychological grip that dominant official narratives exert over populations. It investigates how hegemonic discourses become internalized as common sense, how they shape identity, and how they create psychological barriers to imagining alternatives. It also studies resistance: how individuals and groups psychologically disengage from official narratives and construct counter‑worldviews.
Example: “His research in the psychology of hegemonic official discourses revealed that citizens who had internalized the official story of the nation experiencedcognitive dissonance when confronted with contrary evidence—they literally struggled to process facts that threatened their identity.”
A specialized field that examines how official discourses come to dominate public conversation, setting the terms of debate and defining what can be said. It studies the mechanisms by which certain ways of speaking—neoliberal economics, security‑state rhetoric, technocratic solutions—become so naturalized that alternatives seem unrealistic or radical. The study of hegemonic official discourses tracks how power becomes embedded in language and how counter‑discourses are marginalized.
Example: “The study of hegemonic official discourses showed how the phrase ‘there is no alternative’ (TINA) had been repeated so often by officials that it became a self‑fulfilling prophecy, foreclosing any discussion of economic alternatives.”
A brawl, “donnybrook,” fracas, or melee illegally initiated by benighted fools with less real teeth than fingers who are manipulated by an insecure man with an IQ of 60 and a micro-penis.
Don Jr: “Do you want to go to the One America News Network and hang out?”
Eric: “Are you sure? It sounds like Legitimate Political Discourse just waiting to happen.”
Term for when gun control advocates regularly censor comments on their message boards or blogs. Usually when their arguments and claims are easily refuted.
Term comes from the last days of the old Brady Campaign blog where they ran a series called, of course 'Reasoned Discourse' where they highlighted alleged violent or disgusting comments they had received. This was shortly before they blocked all comments and later deleted them.
I pointed out that murder was already illegal and that making it moreso with a special gun murder statute was a bit silly. Reasoned discoursebroke out, and my comment vanished from the blog.
Whatever discussions are trending among the MeDiA eLiTe on Twitter.com – good/bad/hot/lukewarm takes, viral personal essays, cancellations, any content ripe for mining/dissecting/ruining et al.