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![on orange bg 4 quotes on white bg, black typo: Mills analyses as much regarding racial oppression: Although black and brown people clearly experience blatant racism, we are asked to pretend that we were living in a general meritocracy - with allegedly unfortunate exceptions. Akin to Aime Cesaire's Boomerang Effect, this toxic epistemology is now being generalized:25 Hegemonial liberals cultivated the habit to ignore minoritised realities, gaslighting them into submission to the epistemic contract. In so doing, they were complicit in normalizing and perfecting such gaslighting more generally. Now it backfires.
The exact people who fund Trump's tyrannical regime allegedly defend a "balance of power as the foundation of safety." (Zuckerberg 2026)
With Charles Mills, we can extend this logic of 'submission for protection' to questions of knowledge: "[The epistemic contract is ] an idealized consensus about cognitive norms [...] about what counts as a correct, objective interpretation of the world, and for agreeing to this view, one is ('contractually') granted full cognitive standing in the polity, the official epistemic community." (Mills 1997: 17-18) If you stay within these cognitive norms, so goes the promise, you will be generally protected: People take you seriously, you are a respected member of society and can in principle be heard. According to that model, outside these epistemic laws, punishment looms.
Submission to the epistemic contract is a violent process.
Narcissistic fantasies of power (a), equally narcissistic fantasies of being everybody's target (b) and fears of social exclusion (C) are all fairly common. Until rather recently, these statements would have been telling examples of contractually excluded absurdities. c) still is. a) and b) claim to be real, are heavily pushed by politics and digital propaganda. Thus merging dream and awakenness, imagination and reason in an unstructured, covert way, right wing rhetoric is disavowed surrealism.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:tyszxzsqpm5vylh2dnwwcfy7/bafkreifqn5c6bllcpflex5vacj2c276xlihnavk4iho7uuolqpgwynoy3m)
