> The parent/child thing of yesterday was an allusion to the aborted
> conversation about Judith Bulter's Psychic Life of Power that almost
> began this list: if the human subject is founded in subjection, that
> subject may come to fear the loss of authority as threatening psychic
> cohesion. We are, of course, on alert not to produce a little
> authoritarian, but some degree of coercion comes with the territory. I
> think the idea that undergirds a lot of anarchist thought - not just
> Bookchin but Chomsky, who's said as much - that humans are hard-wired
> for freedom (or are born free but are everywhere in chains, as some
> old Froggie put it) is wishful thinking.
Yeah, but the urge to rebel against the parent-figure seems to be hardwired too.
Seth