Edward Said

[elysiansnake]

The intellectual's role is to uncover and elucidate the contest, to challenge and defeat both an imposed silence and the normalized quiet of unseen power, wherever and whenever that is possible. For there is a social and intellectual equivalence between this mass of overbearing collective interests and the discourse used to justify, disguise or

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[d_bone]

Oh god it's SO true.

Fucking consensus realities.

[elysiansnake]

brilliant man :) i highly suggest reading orientalism or watching the documentary on it. good stuff.