Orientalism’s power lies in its practitioners’ ignorance of what they are doing.

Evidence

And this is precisely where the latent potency of Orientalism lies: it did not and still does not understand what it is really doing, in what context, for what purpose, and exactly to what effects, despite the crises of late modernity (as the final chapter will argue). — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism, 206

Categorization

• XREF: Resonates with Foucault’s power-through-subject-formation and Zamyatin’s We on state-formed subjects who cannot see their own condition.