Hegemonic power universalizes ruling class interest into a national will.

Evidence

This is no immediate and direct imposition of the narrow, short-term, “corporate” class interests of a single class on society. It forges that unity between economic, political, and ideological objectives such that it can place “all the questions around which the struggle rages on a ‘universal’ not a corporative level, thereby creating a hegemony of a fundamental social group over a series of subordinate groups.” This is what Gramsci calls the “educative and formative role of the State.… Its aim is always that of creating new and higher types of civilization; of adapting the ‘civilization’ and the morality of the broadest popular masses to the necessities of the continuous development of the economic apparatus of production”—the formation of a “national-popular will,” based on a particular relationship between the dominant and dominated classes. — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 626

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes the mechanism noted in the earlier silence/soundscape work: dominant frameworks are maintained by consent and recast as natural or universal rather than imposed.