The fable of the Emperor\'s New Clothes is a classic example of a conspiracy of silence, a situation where everyone refuses to acknowledge an obvious truth.
In The Elephant in the Room , Eviatar Zerubavel sheds new light on the social and political underpinnings of Silence and denial-the keeping of "open secrets." The author shows that conspiracies of Silence exist at ever.
But the Denial of social realities--whether incest, alcoholism, corruption, or even genocide-is no fairy tale.
The fable of the Emperor\'s New Clothes is a classic example of a conspiracy of silence, a situation where everyone refuses to acknowledge an obvious truth