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Power is not hidden because powerful people are secretive — it is hidden because most people lack the vocabulary to describe what they are looking at.
Realism is that vocabulary. It does not tell you what the world should look like. It gives you the grammar for reading what the world actually does — the gap between stated reasons and actual motives, the structural forces that constrain even the most powerful actors, and the patterns that make power dynamics legible rather than mysterious.






