Colonial psychopathology has become paid career opportunism at the imperial center

Evidence

One sees much of that slavish disposition in the native informer, but on the imperial home front, where consensus is being manufactured, that psychopathology has now transformed into career opportunism. Native informers have immersed themselves in the white-identified culture and they now serve it out of pure careerism. Good native informers are paid well. — Hamid Dabashi, Brown Skin, White Masks, 115

Categorization

• SEED: Could seed an essay on how intellectual dissent gets commodified and co-opted by the very powers it critiques.

Related

• The colonial psychopathology of slavish identification with power becomes career opportunism in the metropole. (similarity 0.88)
• Exiled intellectuals can become native informers who manufacture consent for empire (similarity 0.80)
• Empires recruit native intellectuals to season their self-justifying narratives (similarity 0.79)