Powerful systems of thought are easily manufactured, deployed, and protected.

Evidence

If this book has any future use, it will be as a modest contribution to that challenge, and as a warning: that systems of thought like Orientalism, discourses of power, ideological fictions—mind-forg’d manacles—are all too easily made, applied, and guarded. — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 830

Categorization

• XREF: The ‘mind-forg’d manacles’ framing ties to Gramscian hegemony—ideology as internalized constraint—which the reader’s scaffold explicitly targets. — connects to: Systems of thought become prisons that are easily made, applied, and guarded; Systems generate needs, then win consent by satisfying those same needs — Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis, Schooling in Capitalist America:…, 1132
• DEFINE: Provides the cautionary definitional claim: discourses of power are ordinary, durable, easy to produce.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 830
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Systems of thought become prisons that are easily made, applied, and guarded; Systems generate needs, then win consent by satisfying those same needs — Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis, Schooling in Capitalist America:…, 1132

Broader Connections

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