Accusing the rich of immorality only serves the machinery of political repression

Evidence

In psychological terms, these managers may experience neurosis, even psychopathy, but those who are not susceptible to fragmented consciousness are frequently identified as sociopaths, said to pervade the corporate world, and with increasing numbers, to boot. More generally, corporate personnel, including the sociopaths among them, are typically able to segregate their experiences in the corporation, thus leading, in effect, a dual existence. The world of the corporation, business, and money is one of fact; the world of children, of sisters and brothers and mothers, is one of value. … The indignation is thus indispensably built into the very system whose atrocities and destruction the indignation itself is intended to obviate, or at least disavow. This is what it means to be a subject of a discursive formation. — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism, 373 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Moral indignation is structurally built into the system it opposes — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism: A Critique of…, 373

Broader Connections

• Moral indignation is structurally built into the system it opposes #corroborates (0.85) — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism, 373