“The aspiration to such uniformity and order alerts us to the fact that modern statecraft is largely a project of internal colonization, often glossed, as it is in its imperial rhetoric, as a 'civilizing mission'.”

An excellent and accurate assessment!!! WOW, that's good, volumes could be writen on this one.

Well said and quite accurate.

Government likes little robot people. They are easy to control when programmed.

Uniformity and order in our material allocations leads to positive diversity in our thoughts and characters. We grow both personally and socially. Socialism is the challenge of social abilities to create diversity.