Society is an illusion, an artifice: a construct. It is the lever that keeps those in power comfortable. It creates order, it creates (or at least encourages) homogeneity, to keep its unstable mass neatly boxed and packaged. It sells luxury, novelty, entertainment and a myriad of non-essential trivialities upon which its users become hopelessly, unwittingly dependent, the administration of which lies with the organisations in power (be they government or financial/corporate).
Society is a product and we are its consumers.
Replace ‘consumers’ with ‘junkies’ at leisure.
There’s a very good quote that deals with exactly this sort of thing in the new Eddie Campbell book. Can’t remember it in its entirety off the top of my head though. Still, if you want to consider the historical sociological perspective of control and order within human culture, just remember the axiom ‘shit always runs downwards’.
Shouldn’t the new category be ‘Philosophy/Politics/Economics/History’, they all essentially being facets of the one beast, so to speak? ‘Philitomory’, perhaps?
Philitomory lol. I’ll have to remember that one.
Try writing it down on a scrap of parchment, old boy – I usually find that an immense aid to those rum Pavlovian Powers that we have stored in the old grey matter of ours, what?
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