> If you are under the panopticon, you are not you any longer. You respond to please others, not yourself. You are in fact a slave.
Under this line of reasoning, any level of societal participation is tantamount to slavery. I understand the what you're angling at and I agree to some extent; however, can you provide a viable alternative?
> Anything that enforces the hierarchical system, making it ever more restrictive, has blood on their hands in my view.
Society in and of itself is a hierarchy. Anything that contributes to society is therefore something that enforces the 'hierarchical system.'
You don't have to participate in society if you wish otherwise. The world could always use more mountaintop hermits.
Under this line of reasoning, any level of societal participation is tantamount to slavery. I understand the what you're angling at and I agree to some extent; however, can you provide a viable alternative?
> Anything that enforces the hierarchical system, making it ever more restrictive, has blood on their hands in my view.
Society in and of itself is a hierarchy. Anything that contributes to society is therefore something that enforces the 'hierarchical system.'
You don't have to participate in society if you wish otherwise. The world could always use more mountaintop hermits.