[If an objectorganization is validated by each unforced conversion, then why not appeal to sovereign power in order to force conversion?
For example, why not ban smoking?
Would that not further validate the objectorganization?
The answer must be ‘no’.
Sovereign imposition of an objectorg reduces the subject’s responsibility and freedom. This is the opposite of building character.]
[Does the institution gain from this exchange?
Certainly. Every success is celebrated.
The institution’s objectorganization is validated by the people who buy their services.
The transaction itself serves as a confirmation of the business’ organizational objective.]
[The health-related business treats the individual, not as a subject, but as someone writ large.
The individual pays to form a business-person dyad to help coach “him”. The customer builds character. The customer gains both responsibility (awareness of “himself” in the mirror of the world3 in regards to something2H) and freedom (how my potential1H is situated by something2H).]
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[Compare a sovereign religion to an infrasovereign institution that refuses to seek sovereign power.
For example, consider a health-related business devoted to (what it calls) “smart choices’”.
This business tries to covert the free person into a character who, either does not smoke tobacco products, or smokes responsibly.]
[The subjective impact of the (infra)sovereign religious zealot is very different.
The imposition validates the objectorg plus the righteousness that supports it.
The imposer feels spiritually superior to the subject.]
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[What is the subjective impact when a sovereign imposes an objectorganization?
The subject loses responsibility and freedom.
The subject gains in words & bondage.]
[What does it mean for sovereign power to impose an object that brings the subject into organization.
The imposition forcibly reduces both the responsibilities and the freedoms of the subject.
What does the subject gain from this exchange?
Some would argue that everyone (the collective) gains by the good inherent in the object (such as a reduction in health care costs, greater health benefits, and so on, all deriving from the cessation of cigarette smoking).
That argument, however, merely re-asserts the intention of the pro-object. It ignores the subjective impact on the individual.]
[An (infra)sovereign religion cannot look at the character of the person. That would require seeing in terms of thinkdivine, a perspective that puts both sovereign and subject into context.
The (infra)sovereign religion can only look at people in terms of thinkpro-object and (its projection of) thinkanti-object.
The subject is reduced to the one accepting the object that brings the subject into organization.
Conformity to thinkpro-object becomes the common core.]
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[Consider the sovereigninfra as a being that reduces the person’s heart in order to impose an organizational good.
What are some of the implications?
Here is one.
This religious being (the sovereigninfra religion) looks down upon the person.
It sees a person (modeled according to the intersecting nested forms) and attempts to directly manipulate features within that model.
The religioninfrasov nudges.
The religioninfrasov pushes.
The religioninfrasov bullies.
The religioninfrasov reduces subjects accused of thinkanti-object to the position of homo sacer (see Giorgio Agamben).]
