WEDDINGS OF ELITES! For the ruling class and ELITES , weddings are never merely weddings. They are political texts
1. Observe the guest list. It reveals the architecture of hegemony. Power does not dine alone. It gathers intellectuals, politicians, businessmen, clergy, and media into one moral bloc.
2. Observe the gifts. They expose the lie that ours is a poor nation. Wealth exists. It has merely been withdrawn from the people and concentrated into private kingdoms.
3. Observe the publicity. The role of propaganda is not only to defend power, but to aestheticise excess until the poor themselves applaud what humiliates them.
4. Observe the laughter beneath chandeliers. It is the sound of a class confident that suffering has become normalised.
5. Observe the silence of institutions. In every unequal society, institutions slowly cease to regulate power and begin to perform for it.
6. Observe the media fascination with luxury. Cultural hegemony succeeds when exploitation is transformed into aspiration.
7. Observe the moral ease with which abundance is displayed before a wounded nation. The tragedy of domination is not merely economic. It is ethical.
8. Observe who praises the spectacle. Every ruling order survives because it manufactures intellectual and social consent around inequality.
9. Observe the distance between the wedding banquet and the everyday citizen. In that distance lies the entire crisis of the postcolonial state.
10. And finally, observe how extravagance seeks visibility. Power always desires celebration. It wants the people not only to endure inequality, but to witness it. To internalise it. To accept it as the natural order of things.
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I am overcome with so many emotions. I am so grateful to have been able to do this. I am leaving @Columbia with STEM Designated MPA concentrating in International Finance and Economic Policy. Iโve now conquered the edge and Ivy League.
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