“In a caste system assumed by all its participants to be divinely sanctioned, subordination and unequal benefits mean that the world is as it should be; in a polity with a norm of social equality the same facts come to mean deprivation and an incentive to resistance.”
Murray Edelman, Politics as Symbolic Action
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You've given me a lot to think about. Now, if you'll excuse me, I've got some Brahmins to slay.
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