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Identity politics has, however, equipped people, organizations, and institutions with a new vocabulary to describe their politics and aesthetic—even if the substance of those political decisions are irrelevant or even counter to the
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“The concept of elite capture originated in the study of developing countries to describe the way socially advantaged people tend to gain control over financial benefits, especially foreign aid, meant for others.”
― Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics
― Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics
“Value capture is a process by which we begin with rich and subtle values, encounter simplified versions of them in the social wild, and revise our values in the direction of simplicity—thus rendering them inadequate.”
― Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics
― Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics
“This is just how life is supposed to be: terrible and brief and ending in—if you’re lucky—oblivion.”
― The Obelisk Gate
― The Obelisk Gate
“Ball adds that the “buying power” variant of this myth also serves to shift focus and blame onto the supposed “financial illiteracy” of the Black poor, as opposed to the social and economic conditions that exploit, oppress, and marginalize people.16”
― Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics
― Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics
“Conquerors live in dread of the day when they are shown to be, not superior, but simply lucky.”
― The Stone Sky
― The Stone Sky
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