This is called Biopower and Michel Foucault is someone to learn the nuances of it from.
We already do this to a high degree and in many ways you take for granted.
Biopower started with the modern state. The old kings did not have power over life they had power over death they could just execute you or main you as punishment.
Moderate States have a vested interest in keeping their citizens alive and have a power over the bodies of its subjects, called Biopower, and it is exercised when doing things like forcing births by banning abortions, incarcerating individuals and punishing their mind and soul but giving them healthcare and counseling rather than just maiming or executing them, also when mentally ill people are probated to state hospital systems against their will because the state says they are incompetent to make decisions and we aren't comfortable with them on the streets eating out of our trashcans.
Social control. New standard? Fuck no lol. It has always been a matter of degrees. Look dude, there are a whole class of humans that are classified as illegals and they are subject to kidnapping and internment currently. Any state that has the power to do that to one person has the power to do it to any other.
This social distancing stuff is really asking people to be good citizens and try to be smart, but America is too fat and dumb for that shit. So many people just have the bovine drive to herd up and consume.
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I agree. People have currently been brainwashed that centralized planning is a good idea now for some reason. It doesn't work as well as intended ever, it never will, and its not worth our freedoms.
But we let this problem happen as well. We have a population that is fat, unhealthy, and remarkably unready for regular sickness let alone this type of disease.
You endorses this kind of power just to your own taste and discriminations.
This post was edited by Skinned on Apr 17 2020 09:50am