The diction she uses surrounding the spoken language such as, "disguised," "render the suffering," and, "glamorized," really shows how politicians exploit linguistics and mold them into blindfolds for everyday citizens. From this point also, it is understood how authors have to appeal to their audience. Politicians, according to Morrison, use a wide range of tactics to blind and, "satisfy," all citizens, even the dissatisfied and without this tactic; certain politicians would cease to exist. According to her, this is done with the principle of, "the excluder vs. the excluded," (3). Part of the human condition has to do with conformity and belonging within a group or patriotism. It is with this aspect of the human condition that political authors use to form society's ideals or as Morrison said "render [them] mute". .
Similarly as with the politicians in Morrison's lecture, the idea of inclusion versus exclusion is apparent in the novella, Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky, as well. Dostoevsky takes this crude and radically expressive man, known as the underground man, and makes him into the narrator of the piece. Within the first sections of the work, the underground man appears to be rude, condescending and someone that most readers cannot identify with. However, Dostoevsky begins to submerge the reader into the piece through the human principles of conformity and exclusion, just as Morrison's politicians do. As opposed to how the politicians use inclusion as a promise and a disguise, Dostoevsky used exclusion as an attraction. The underground man stalks and follows a popular army officer for weeks, hoping to one day nudge shoulders with him. Not only at this point is it understood that the underground man does not have a large social group, nor is he very memorable, but he is also seen in this serial-killer, kind of psychiatric light of minimal purpose (Dostoevsky 39).