One would benefit from reading Foucault's "Governmentality," I would think. Of course there are a number of other critical theories produced in the 20th century that would also give one an interesting perspective on these things.
...as there is a difference between established intent and actual outcome/functionality.
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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