Subordinating the state to the general will

I saw this just before chrimbo (via DSTPFW) and I've tried half-a-dozen times to write a post about it for here because it doesn't have its own comment thread.

There's far too much meat there for one comment. For fuxake, go read it yourself.

A few times in the last few years, other bloggers have pointed to something that has already arrived at the conclusion that they have been striving towards. The conclusion that they were never likely to actually articulate properly.

Like whoever it was who said that they found out that they'd been writing prose all along, this post pulls together so many themes that I've been niggling around for so long. I'd never have got there though.