Essentially, human society is the sum total of various systems of domination.
Different domination systems, in order to achieve a certain degree of sustainability, must depend on the recognition of a certain size of the group. Once there is no identity group, the so-called domination system will collapse.
Therefore, the evolution of the system of domination can also be used as a historical perspective:
First, it is the different group attributes that create different domination systems. Therefore, the formation of the domination system must be formed in response to the appeal of the group, or to the lack of the group.
Achieving demands is the conspiracy to realize interests, and snooping on lack is dissolving individual cognition.
Second, there are different domination systems, once formed, they will be consolidated and enriched by powerful means, so as to dissolve individual cognition at the same time, compress the possible "complicity" of the domination system as much as possible, and turn to a posture of overpower.
Third, once the domination system is in a dominant posture, it will enter into various forms of questioning and challenges, and finally, the domination system will enter the stage of improvement, revision, or complete collapse.
With the domination system as the entry point, history has still entered a tortuous path of progress.
From the perspective of the domination system itself, there are basically three levels of domination, which correspond to three mechanisms of scarcity.
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The first level: institutional domination.
That is, the identification of a certain system of order based on a set of rules. Thus, institutional domination is premised on a consensus among the group on the rationality of its rules.
Only when the rationality of the rules has obtained the consensus of the group (this group mainly refers to the dominated group), then the construction and implementation of the governing system can have the corresponding soil.
Just like Liu Bang back then, the "Three Chapters of the Law", the so-called "Three Chapters", that is, the rules. And the people's support for him means that the "three chapters" have gained the rationality of the rules. Therefore, the subsequent Han Dynasty was able to continuously revise the rules on this basis.
However, the subsequent revisions have not been strongly opposed, or rather, there have been some struggles among some special groups, and the reason for this is that the rational construction of the initial system of domination has acquired a kind of soil and a possible habitual regulation.
Therefore, the obedience of individuals and rational individuals to domination in the institutional system of domination is essentially obedience to the rationality of the rules, rather than obedience to the enforcers of the rules. It's just that, due to the formation of certain habits, individuals tend to become irrational and fall into obedience to certain individuals.
Thus, in the system of institutional domination, there are individual differences: rational people, seeking the rationality of rules. The irrational becomes an adjunct to the powerful individual.
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The second level: authoritative domination.
If institutional domination is constructed based on the rationality of rules, then authoritative domination is constructed based on traditional habits and cognitive inertia.
Authoritative domination, which is weaker than institutional domination at the level of domination, lies in two factors:
First, it is the basis for the construction of the system of domination, which is a certain narrow and systematic habit of regulation.
Second, the dominated group is subordinate to a certain individual, or a certain group of institutions.
These two points just confirm the process of a certain period of domination from prosperity to decline in the imperial era. In the heyday, the rationality of the rules is generally the basis of domination, and in the declining time, it enters into the obedience to the power of various levels of individuals formed by the strong regulation of habits.
Therefore, authoritative domination is actually a process of peeking into the traditional obedience mechanism in the habits of the group, and amplifying this obedience gene until it is sacred.
And here the amplification, sacredness, there is a series of operating mechanisms. For amplification, it is often repeated and emphasized in various daily routines to achieve a deep-rooted cognitive habit. Sanctification, that is, the possible individual authority is characterized as a kind of landscape, that is, the interests of the dominated group are tied up with a one-way logic in the sentence form of "only by obeying this authority, the individual can obtain".
Because of this, once this "only...... ......In reality, loopholes continue to appear in the sentence structure, or it is subverted by another sentence structure, then the authoritative domination will only enter the situation of jokes. Just as the authoritative sentence of "expert" is subverted today.
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The third level: deprivation of sexual dominance.
That is, in response to the lack of cognition of the dominated group in some aspects, or the lack of demands, it is constructed, which is different from daily habits, or the logic of domination that can be obtained within the scope of individual ability.
In other words, the system of scarcity domination must have two underlying logics:
First, its governing logic is completely new, different from habits and habits, and is non-routine.
Second, it must be based on a certain degree of lack of judgment on the part of the dominated group, that is, on the lack of a certain degree of critical ability for new logic.
At the same time, this underlying logic is similar to proposing a new or higher-dimensional appeal for the future and one's own experience for the dominated group. Often, there is a certain dimensionality reduction blow to reality, or a path to construct a high-intensity dream to achieve.
Therefore, the system of scarcity must be based on the construction of an unknown and beautiful future. Just like the vision, many times, it is based on some kind of fulfillment of the future. And this kind of "cashing" must have some kind of fault in the current cognitive structure. It is precisely this kind of drastic fault line that makes the more deprived people fall into a kind of passion, a kind of pursuit.
Thus, scarcity domination, in fact, means that the scarcity of reality cognition, the easier it is to construct its system.
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In the end, domination must be based on the asymmetry of a certain relationship, or cognition, or wealth, or status, or influence, etc., as long as it can constitute an asympathetic factor, then domination will inevitably arise.
The only difference is whether it is group domination or just accidental individual domination.
When we enter group domination, we enter the construction of the domination system, that is, we enter the social vision and become a social element. Accidental individual domination, on the other hand, is only a strategy for one person at a time, one place, and one person, and it is only a means to achieve a certain goal with the help of individual dominant elements.
Therefore, the former goes to order, and the latter to mindfulness.