provincedeaf
/ˈprɒvɪnsˌdɛf/adjectiveVerified NewDescribing a political class that cannot hear the periphery until it erupts.
Paris heard nothing from the Vendée until the Vendée was burning; metropolitan information systems filter out provincial warnings as noise until they arrive as events.
Etym. — *province* + *deaf*, flipping the usual "rural isolation" frame onto the capital.
Rel. — cahierwave · pollfog
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