Sunday 28 December 2008

With organisation of the masses comes regulation of the individual... Individual coerced into certain behaviours by collective force, he has all kinds of expectations, prejudices, and values, infecting the deepest substrata of his thought, that are not his naturally but are the suggestions of society. Society's expectations form an unbreakable hegemony, perhaps the hardest force in the world to resist. Values, ethics, morals, it seems their function is to obscure inequalities, to conceal unfairness.
Social organisation on a large scale entails coercion for the individual. There is something brutal about the idea of a nation state, something sinister about the notion of work as productivity, and that a permanent state.
The organisation and functioning of a given society, regardless of the political model it follows, must always entail a degree of force. Isn't majority rule a sort of violence against the individual?

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