>>2684206The verb someone like Althrusser would use would be that they're *interpellated* into it, rather than 'falling' for it. Culture wars function as a displacement of political-economic contradictions onto the ideological terrain. They are not mere conflicts over values, but a regulated struggle within and between ideological state apparatuses (such as education, media, and family) which are themselves the sites of class struggle. The dominant ideology does not operate monolithically; it must constantly negotiate and re-secure its hegemony by managing dissent. This management is performed by fracturing the populace into competing subject positions (e.g., "traditional" vs. "progressive") through interpellation. This process recodes latent class antagonism into moral and symbolic conflicts, thereby fragmenting potential class unity into polarized identities. The intense investment in these symbolic battles misrecognizes the material basis of social relations, as the ideological state apparatuses reconfigure the conflict to serve the reproduction of the existing relations of production. Thus, the "war" is a spectacle within ideology, which absorbs and contains resistance by making ideology itself appear as the primary site of struggle, thereby obscuring the fundamentally economic nature of state power and class domination.