POL 339 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Euphemism, Gesture, Totalitarianism
12 Apr 2016
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!it masks the agency of the employer ostigmatizing rebels into, trouble makers & outsiders . !rebels being call hooligans, foreigners, outsiders, agitators: 4) to create the appearance of unanimity and social cohesion, especially among the ruling class odon"t want the working class to exploit the elites. !p. 10 of scott"s book how power not a=only affects the subordinate, but also the dominant. P. 11 distinction: the necessary posing of the dominant derives not from weakness, but from the ideas behind the rule that rationalized the power of the dominant. A warrior king must act like a brave general, an elected head of the republic must appear to respect the opinion of the people . Most important goal: to intimidate the subordinate group and awe them in to compliance but it is also to convince the dominant themselves of the power they assert a kind of self hypnosis to display their power and to convince themselves".
