What is this strange drive to reveal the nonhidden? Maybe it's that, in liberal democracies that still pay lip service to social equality (or at least “equity”), there is something profoundly unsatisfying about how open our global elites are about the power they believe they have a right to wield over the rest of us. The mechanics of oligarchy are not hidden; they are flaunted with a level of pride that actively humiliates their spectators.

DEFINE: Reframes oligarchy not as concealed but as openly displayed power, challenging the assumption that elites hide their dominance.

Naomi Klein, Doppelganger, loc. 787