Many people have been reconfigured to identify with the interests of the institutions that validate them as part of the price of admission to privilege—possibly a supermajority in “developed” countries—but otherwise I think you’re characterizing my perspective accurately, and it’s unclear to what extent the resulting preferences are the preferences of a person as we might naïvely imagine.
Many people have been reconfigured to identify with the interests of the institutions that validate them as part of the price of admission to privilege—possibly a supermajority in “developed” countries—but otherwise I think you’re characterizing my perspective accurately, and it’s unclear to what extent the resulting preferences are the preferences of a person as we might naïvely imagine.