That's PMC pietist shit, the middle-class myth of the state as they wish it had happened. The middle class needs people, especially their subordinates, to believe that subordination is natural and that they should feel wrong if they don't feel the need to serve the middle class whims.
The reality is far more varied and more complicated than liberal humbug, and very often involves no personification of the whole cosmos, no "total master" of the kind that idiot Anglos can't seem to get their tongues off of. Read more Graeber.
That's PMC pietist shit, the middle-class myth of the state as they wish it had happened. The middle class needs people, especially their subordinates, to believe that subordination is natural and that they should feel wrong if they don't feel the need to serve the middle class whims.
The reality is far more varied and more complicated than liberal humbug, and very often involves no personification of the whole cosmos, no "total master" of the kind that idiot Anglos can't seem to get their tongues off of. Read more Graeber.
https://davidgraeber.org/papers/culture-as-creative-refusal/
I don't know what this refers to.