Sublime

enforced schooling is the most powerful weapon used by governments and missionaries to instil in tribal children values which are different, often contradictory, to those held by their own societies.

to ensure that a potentially powerful majority cannot recognize itself, being split into separate and competing factions from which a handful of representatives are allowed conspicuous entry into the meritocracy.

During the modern era, centralized states gradually reduced the level of political violence within their territories, and in the last few decades Western countries have managed to eradicate it almost entirely. The citizens of France, Britain, or the United States can struggle for control of towns, corporations, organizations, and even the governmen

Jared Diamond, in The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies?

An unending sequence of military interventions had to be represented “as an unexceptional part of the state’s external political life” in order to ensure the docility of domestic populations.

As a consequence, resistance takes particular forms under particular structures of domination, to use Scott's expression, or what Foucault describes as relations of power.