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I've actually used a rental phone in Japan with a mysterious button labeled "mira-" in katakana... When I touched it, the display turned off, and I wondered why.
I asked a friend about this "mira-" function and she pointed out that when you touch it you can use the screen as a mirror.
It turned out the display was coated with a reflective material that works fairly well once the display is off.
Military, economic and political elites are, more or less, interchangeable. And they tend to do what's in their institutional self-interest and individual self-interest. That includes undermining other forms of authority or power, when it works, or collaborating, when that gets them what they want.
