scale, we must be "subject to the constraints" or slaves of democracy. Held is admitting that for the nation-state to work on any level, the state cannot work for us, but rather, we must work for the state. The evidence of this is all around us in the form of taxes, laws, and law enforcement. By living in state and claiming its identity for yourself, you automatically subject yourself to the "constraints" of that system. Like the humans constrained to the Matrix which feed it, we now are constrained to the state which we feed.States are not the only entities which seek to create our world. More and more, corporations are challenging the state for power. Like the government, corporations thrive on money, and in order to achieve success, they produce goods and services, that according to them, should enhance our lives. Microsoft is the supreme example of this. They are a corporation which dominates a basic human necessity: communication. In "A Interview with Noam Chomsky," Chomsky is asked about the social and cultural impacts of this. He reacts:"It's a form of tyranny. But, that's the whole point of corporatization-to try to remove the public from makingdecisions over their own fate, to limit the public arena.to control opinion, to make sure that the fundamentaldecisions that determine how the world is going to be run-which includes production, commerce, distribution,thought, social policy, foreign policy, everything-are notin the hands of the public, but rather in the hands of highlyconcentrated private power."From companies trying to sell you the "cool" soda, to the media itself (large corporations that sell audiences to the soda-makers), the world is being created for us. And while it is being created for us, we are identifying ourselves through it, leaving little room for critical thought.Once it is understood that our world is already mostly made up, we have to analyze what other threats may exist. Simply put, tech...
