Thanks, indeed, Gramsci perfectly reflects my own experience, the reality I've grown up in. My ancestors were plantation slave owners and I saw "culture" at work closely as these customs are passed on through the generations.

Charity, doing "good", is the one I remember the strongest. My grandmother organised once a year a big party for all the poor in the village, filled with gifts for the children. A party from which we as kids of the family were strictly excluded. Only decades later did I truly understand what I had witnessed: a management tool for violence and oppression passed down as a "culture".

We, the oppressors, were given a yearly updated kind human face. Important as us being on an island in the vast minority. But the message was equally twofold: we don't belong with them. A reminder that the family's position depended on maintaining the divide. No fraternizing on any personal level, keeping the poor as an abstract distant group, a repulsive fate, a deterrent. In short, a necessary dehumanisation for effective exploitation and if needed to ease the application of violence.

My poor grandmother, to be honest, a very decent and kind human being, had not the slightest idea of what she was continuing. She genuinely believed she was doing good. But that's how it works.

Since then, I've always been extremely suspicious of anyone with those types of claims. As there are perfectly rational reasons for not wanting to do harm, or better. Far more honest motivations. That is why I enjoyed Bernard Shaw's play, Major Barbara.

It's why I'm interested in systems. Why I support https://www.ecogood.org/what-is-ecg/ and oppose the divisive and exclusive nature of democracy. It's clearly designed to systematically exclude minorities from ever having power. It should be replaced asap by Systemic Consensus. https://www.sk-prinzip.eu/# see in action at 12:00 > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsO-b0_r-5Y

That is if humans were capable of rational logical thought. Truth being we tribal apes are not. Evolution made sure of that. >> The Secret Of Our Success by anthropologist Joseph Henrich, see https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/06/04/book-review-the-secret-of-our-success/