Bourgeois reading filters out whatever would disturb its clear conscience.

Evidence

One cannot say that the petty bourgeois has never read anything. On the contrary, he has read everything, devoured everything. … Only, his brain functions after the fashion of certain elementary types of digestive systems. It filters. And the filter lets through only what can nourish the thick skin of the bourgeois’ clear conscience. — Aimé Césaire, Discourse on Colonialism, 115

Categorization

• DEFINE: Mechanism of selective cultural digestion: the filter admits only what preserves bourgeois self-image.
• XREF: connects to: Bourgeois democracy renders invisible the class operation that produces consent

Broader Connections

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