that makes sense if you contextualize her perspective with her class and her place in history. to her all progress is unassailably good and any who oppose it must be evil. people are bound to defend that on which they are wholly dependent. the modern technocratic state and the attendant suite of complex technologies and production systems on which it rests forms the source of all that is good, a sort of god, to armies and super-masses of state functionaries, harpies, consoomer types, spiritually gay urbanites et al.
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