Exiled intellectuals can become native informers who manufacture consent for empire
Evidence
I wish to map out the conditions in which from the selfsame cadre of exiles are recruited native informers who are no longer telling their imperial employers what they need to know but rather what they want to believe in order to manufacture communal consensus. They are there to convince the public that invading and bombing and occupying the homelands of others is a good and moral thing. — Hamid Dabashi, Brown Skin, White Masks, 117
Categorization
- XREF: Builds directly on Said’s exilic intellectual ideal in ‘Representations of the Intellectual’ — Dabashi is inverting it.
Related
- Expatriate protection enables intellectuals to denounce their home societies with impunity (similarity 0.82)
- Exilic intellectual identity cuts both ways for every Said there are ten Ajamis (similarity 0.81)
- Native informer intellectuals have replaced Orientalists in serving imperial capital (similarity 0.81)
- Colonial psychopathology has become paid career opportunism at the imperial center (similarity 0.80)
- Empires recruit native intellectuals to season their self-justifying narratives (similarity 0.80)
- Empire recruits native intellectuals to demolish local cultures that resist global capitalism (similarity 0.79)
- US imperial machinery adopted Muslim-origin intellectuals to supply legitimizing narratives. (similarity 0.79)