Segregation Is Power

Mary Malone writes:
The Patriarchal State is a jealous god. A person's face must turn towards the State and nowhere else.
Amongst ordinary people, both villagers and townspeople, from time immemorial till the construction of the totalitarian welfare state, there have been guilds, churches, societies based on affection and mutual aid. People have formed societies, both formal and  informal, to look after each other, to tend to the sick, to educate the young, to help with work and with the harvest.
But since the invention of the Liberal State two hundred years ago, the government has taken over many of these activities that were once done autonomously, so that instead of agreeing with a neighbour we must now apply to a bureaucrat. And what cannot be offered by the State must be purchased on the corporate capitalist market.
By being aware of the inroads already made by the State, and being aware that, strange as it may seem, hierarchy is not the natural order of mankind, we may understand the further deepening of State Power, and its intrusion into the closest human relationships, those of the family and those between lovers.
By dividing us from each other, the bureaucrats prevent us from living together as a community (using the word in its meaningful sense).
Segregation is the path down which the State leads us to its absolute triumph. We are all categorised, labeled, branded, divided from each other, a colonial Apartheid of divide and rule.
The young are separated from the adults. By raising the school leaving age from 14 to 16 and now to 18, through youth culture, television and school our youth are made strangers to us. The young no longer help in the family work, something which would have seemed incredible to every generation of humanity, until the last fifty years.
Older people too are shunted to one side, no one having much time for them, so busy are we consuming and being consumed. Care has become professionalised, another service to be claimed from the bureaucracy or to be bought.
And now the State wants to separate women from men, leaving us all alone and isolated, bereft, irresponsible and driven mad, making us all the easier to subdue and to subject to the institutions of Patriarchal Power.
The Patriarchy of the Liberal State was based upon the family, taking the Peasant man out of his environment, conscripting him in the army, teaching him the mindset of Domination, then returning him to his family as its corporal, his wife's commander in chief.
The modern Patriarchy of the Social Democratic State is based on the creation of an individual who is no longer fully human, who has lost the greater part of their capacity for intimate and affectionate relations between equals, an individual who will take upon herself the fundamental sexist hatred of Vichy Feminism, a hatred that aims at the destruction of the values and positive capabilities that people hold within them, which aims to convert us into lonely self centred beings, unfamiliar with upright or loving behaviour either in our public or private lives, unable to to empathize with real human needs, knowing only how to respond to the Regulations of Power.