MEMBER BLOG TAG: bureaucratization
| Monday, May 26, 2008 10:29AM | | | | Becoming an Object | Tags: Objectification, dominance, bureaucratization
| | | | We generally don't like bureaucratization or objectification, and with a lot of good reasons. But one advantage of objectification is that it does set limits to dominance. I've done more than my share of menial work in my younger days. When I worked as a janitor at a university, I sort of hoped that people would think of me as an object, since I would feel humiliated if they didn't. I suppose that is also why people traditionally placed before a firing squad for execution have been offered a blindfold. By putting on the blindfold, one in effect makes oneself into an object, a status that some people prefer (and others don't) under such conditions. This is also why the Nazis, who were so bent on... | | | | | |
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