Well burrowed, old mole!

The structure  of the state is the impossible promise.  It puts itself forward as though it could represent everyone under its sway.  The state would implement the interests of the social body; the social body is the desire of the people–every person.

The sheer impossibility of this promise leads to the development and proliferation of binary thought as an ad hoc/ideological mechanism.  Most importantly, we see the emergence of a binary distinction between appearance and reality and the elaboration of a ‘real world’ beyond all possible experience.  The impossibility of the promise requires this falsification….