Empire produces and maintains strategic ignorance as a ruling technology

Evidence

Might imperial dispositions indeed have at their core such a “vital lie”? This is not the colossal lie that Arendt describes for Eichmann and the political engineers of Nazi Germany. Rather it is a “lie for life,” not about religious gods but secular ones, about political myths, empire’s “noble” projects, as Valck called them, and the do-good deeds of those who carried them out. — Ann Laura Stoler, Along the Archival Grain_ Epistemic…, 1419 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Societies can be controlled through engineered pleasure rather than coercion — , The Braided Reading EPUB: 5-Year…, 1253; Imperial power produces ignorance through acts of refusal to notice; Empire creates its own reality rather than responding to discernible facts. (+7 more)

Related

• Imperial governance rests on a vital lie about empire’s noble projects (similarity 0.85)
• Empire creates its own reality rather than responding to discernible facts. (similarity 0.85)
• Imperial agents find satisfaction in pure functioning, not in achieved ends (similarity 0.81)
• Imperial rule rests on a vital lie distinguishing it from Nazism’s colossal lies. (similarity 0.80)
• Imperial dispositions may be the template for modern political self-deception (similarity 0.80)
• Imperial dispositions are trained habits of attention channeled by rules of relevance (similarity 0.80)
• Imperial power produces ignorance through acts of refusal to notice (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Imperial power produces ignorance through acts of refusal to notice #expands (0.85)
• Empire creates its own reality rather than responding to discernible facts. #expands (0.75)
• Imperial governance rests on a vital lie about empire’s noble projects #corroborates (0.70) — Ann Laura Stoler, Along the Archival Grain_ Epistemic…, 1419
• The ruling class controls mental production and regulates ruling ideas #corroborates (0.65)
• The time-zone grid ignores geography and embodies imperial control #exemplifies (0.60) — James W. Carey, Communication as Culture- Essays on…, 850
• Imperial dispositions may be the template for modern political self-deception #expands (0.60) — Ann Laura Stoler, Along the Archival Grain_ Epistemic…, 1412