Stevens notes traditional morality was a tool of natural selection, and thinks capitalism relaxes this mechanism into inevitable degeneracy.
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@sarahdoingthing How can one have a 'post-totalitarian' prevention of new ritual orders? Wouldn't that require nullifying totality? -
@DIA_operative post-totalitarianism is still totalitarianism, just by cooperative means - 5 more replies
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@sarahdoingthing A decentralized and automatic process of totalitarian inhibition carried forward not by a tyrant but by people themselves. -
@sarahdoingthing This would account for a regime of signs all the more suppressive for being 'post-totalitarian' (in appearance).
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@sarahdoingthing I think what you could be talking about here are cybernetic (spontaneously emergent) systems of control...Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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