Individualism

On George Clooneys' latest film Michael Clayton(unless he's made another one since last week)
Clooney has discovered a niche in the genre of protest films: the insider who has been granted enlightenment and becomes a scourge. In Michael Clayton he is a fixer in a law firm,looking a bit dishevelled,holding life together with scotch tape,whose partner begins to fall apart, undresses at a hearing then disappears to collect incrimnating evidence agains the company his law firm is representing. Clooney finally discovers his partner is on to scumbaggery and ....I won't reveal the plot but remember Clooney played a similar role in Syriana.
What has this to do with 2A6. Connect to Edward Said's view of the intellectual as outsider. Said is pluggling into the tradition that only someone who is outside the system can expose and bring it down. There is a long tradition of this ,notably Isaac Deutscher's view of Spinoza, Freud, and Marx, who as Jewish outsiders could see through the hypocrisy of the system . But are we forgetting the sunversive insider.e'g Clooney. Gorbachev, who ended communism ,was a vintage insider,women who had made it helped bring down Enron. (This kind of insider is to be distinguished from C.E.O's who ruin their companies and receive large bonuses.)Can you think of other examples of the redeemed insider.