Discipline-blockade is a centralized/sovereign power. It imposes order and controls from the outside. An example is a plague town. It was exiled and controlled by outside powers.
Discipline mechanism is a decentralized power. It imposes from the inside; Object of information, not subject of communication. For example, one of the big examples we discussed, the panopticon.
Real world examples of panopticons are prisons, mental hospitals, and schools. Panoptic discipline is visible and unverifiable and automizes and dis-individualizes power much like the world does to the people/cultures not of the right kind. It amazes me that we are living in a panopticon, but it is something which should've been seen a while ago. We can't see who is controlling us but we know or think we know it is the government.
Jaiden, is there anything we can do about this?
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