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Originally posted by roachboy
atomized=wholly fragmented, tending toward negative identities, only able to form alternative social or political networks with great difficulties...incapable of coherent resistance , withdrawn into the smallest possible spheres of social interaction as a defensive posture...
features like that.
the public image of an authoritarian regime, which tends to rule by fragmenting the population and by doing so makes them infinitely more malleable.
not that far from american conservative ideology in its total, implacable hostility to the public as concept.
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Atomized in the private sphere, sure, but certainly not in public. Authoritarian regimes, since the adoption of the nation-state, have always functioned as an artificial unifying device for public interaction.
I suppose ARTele's NEW Authority might seek to "atomize" the public while still maintaining control through a different means, other than a singular "ein volk" philosophy. Don't ask me what that other means would be--media, distraction, drugs???