I bring one here: it is more or less like the personal experience of what Tocqueville says about the ominpotence of the mass: "Democracy requires that at some moments, and in some respects always, one will cease to be. One will be not only ruled and overruled, but made absent. This, like death, comes whether one accepts it or not, to both the willing and the unwilling. In these little daily deaths, one is dissolved back into a common matrix, one becomes material, a resource. One can be, one will be remade. Something--an aspect or a part--will be found useful, the rest superfluous. That which is found useful may be appropriated, but useful or superfluous the disaggregated self will no longer be one's own. This dissolution and remaking is work, moreover, outside one's own will, over which one has no control."
Anne Norton, "Evening Land," in Democracy and Vision: Sheldon Wolin and the Vicissitudes of the Political, ed. Aryeh Botwinick and William E. Connolly (Princeton, 2001), p. 166.
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I bring one here: it is more or less like the personal experience of what Tocqueville says about the ominpotence of the mass:
"Democracy requires that at some moments, and in some respects always, one will cease to be. One will be not only ruled and overruled, but made absent. This, like death, comes whether one accepts it or not, to both the willing and the unwilling. In these little daily deaths, one is dissolved back into a common matrix, one becomes material, a resource. One can be, one will be remade. Something--an aspect or a part--will be found useful, the rest superfluous. That which is found useful may be appropriated, but useful or superfluous the disaggregated self will no longer be one's own. This dissolution and remaking is work, moreover, outside one's own will, over which one has no control."
Anne Norton, "Evening Land," in Democracy and Vision: Sheldon Wolin and the Vicissitudes of the Political, ed. Aryeh Botwinick and William E. Connolly (Princeton, 2001), p. 166.
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