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Goliaputian ('''N'''): Reputational attacks performed by individuals defending institutions against individuals criticizing institutions. The Goliaputian is the concept that the people who have accepted the institutional bargain get angry at David for challenging their master. The Goliaputians are the attack from below, as somebody attempts to get big enough to actually go up against, let's say, the National Academy of Sciences, or the Federal Reserve and central banking. It's reputational violence in order to avoid actually having to go out and off somebody in a cornfield. == Related Concepts == * [[Distributed Idea Suppression Complex]] * [[Extractive Elite]] * [[Gated Institutional Narrative|Gated Institutional Narrative (GIN)]] * [[Intellectual Border Collies]] * [[Kayfabrication]] * [[Knarc]] * [[The Looting Party]] * [[Peer Review]] * [[Preference Falsification]] * [[Sharp Minds vs Sharp Elbows]] [[Category:Ericisms]]
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