Elites occupy an interconnected world where the usual laws are shrugged off

Evidence

I played this story for laughs, mainly to fellow journalists, for a good long time. Some were baffled that the appointed head of a corrupt oil emirate would have expected a call from Campbell in the first place. I had no inside knowledge, but it’s slightly less weird when you consider that Campbell testified as a witness at the international war crimes trial of the former Liberian president Charles Taylor, over allegations that the notorious butcher had gifted Campbell a pouch of blood diamonds after they met at a dinner party hosted by Nelson Mandela. From which we can only conclude that once you reach a certain level of fame, wealth, and/or power, everyone takes one another’s calls. (It’s this intuitive awareness that elites occupy an interconnected world of their own, one where the laws governing the rest of us are shrugged off, that is the wellspring of today’s conspiracy singularity.) — Naomi Klein, Doppelganger, 446

Categorization

• XREF: Directly seeds the ‘Mirror World’ premise — the intuition that elites trade in a closed circle is the root of conspiracy thinking, bridging this anecdote to the book’s central thesis. — connects to: Powerful groups dominate space through legal and illegal means — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity: An…, 1396; The space that elites need to manage public reality is disappearing — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1566; Deference grants elites exemption from ordinary rules and norms — W. David Marx, Status and Culture: How Our Desire for…, 69
• SEED: Angle: the conspiracy-plausibility of elite interconnection explained from a benign anecdote up — how a true (but trivial) fact about elite networking feeds the Mirror World.