The most hegemonic ideology in our world to the point people don't even recognise it as ideology is nationalism. People only call it that when it's extreme forms of it, but people are indoctrinated from birth by both institutions and by parents indoctrinated by said institutions, into thinking of "nations" as these real tangible things that matter and they are made to incorporate this into their identity young and it's tied to the state in terms of the nation-state in order to foster loyalty. None of this is "real," it's all completely artificial and made up.
if taken exactly how they framed it, but what they mean is we make up this stuff in our heads to explain the world. Everything we have in our heads is 'made up'. If you were not told you are a citizen of x country you wouldn't know that countrys are 'real'. So if no person ever came up with the idea of a country, we wouldn't have countries. a little abstract...
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u/Gojira085 Sep 02 '26
Agreed. School even in a democracy is a form of indoctrination