That's why advocating for quality education must be everyone's advocacy.
Empowering people to ask, learn, and be critical is a power that can never be taken away.
What Foucault calls ‘regimes of truth’ do not have to be ‘true’; they have only to be thought of as
‘true’ and acting on as if ‘true’. If ideas are believed, they establish and legitimate particular
regimes of truth. (4/4)
Sharing my readings in Pol Theo 2, as it depicts modern society.
Gramsci argued that a stable state never rules by force alone but relies on a combination of coercion and consent. (1/2)
Power produces reality; through discourses it produces the ‘truths’ we live by: ‘Each society has
its own regime of truth, its “general politics” of truth – that is, the types of discourse it accepts
and makes function as true’ (Foucault, 2002a: 131). (3/4)