potential hegemony

This has been the strongest artifact I can identify that brings home the idea of hegemony, especially as Iran's investigation into Neda's death plays out in the concluding scenes.

Hegemony happens where a dominant group, organization, institution, or class controls societal order and shapes opinions by making their own ideas appear to be the accepted ideas.

When those subordinates to the dominant entity accept certain ideas as natural, they've actually yielded to social constructs created by those above them.

For example, our most recent census has put an end to the idea of a white majority in America. Yet, despite some efforts, mainstream American entertainment still depicts American culture largely as white, perpetuating the social construct that the minority divide still exists.

Over the course of your discovering artifacts, what come to mind in your experience that resonates with this theory of hegemony?

Here's another example, weapons of mass destruction.