I am very interested in how the author argues the discipline used by the Repressive state apparatuses. The use of empty police cars, use of cameras that may not work, or even the use of a bible. I am a religious person, but that does not mean I can't see where an atheist is coming from. I have a problem with uneducated atheists, that formulate arguments for stupid reasons. However, the bible when created could have been a way to discipline and control the masses. All religions have the same goal, to achieve salvation for a peaceful and plentiful after life. Repressive state apparatuses could have helped to shape "rules" in the bible in order to keep the masses in line. Disciplining the masses through a totalizing meta narrative. Using the 10 commandments as a way of having the masses self discipline themselves. According to Senior Lyotard, totalizing meta narratives don't work anymore. Our society is to pluralistic, so we have seen the transition into the surveillance of the masses. Whether it be through cameras that work or not and empty cop cars. Foucault is saying that these disciplines are there inorder to keep us in line because without the discipline than we will steal and deceive.
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