Language philosopher Bry Willis examines the Nietzschean perspective on how morality and religion function as highly efficient tools for systemic social control. By framing submission as a virtue and resistance as a sin, these frameworks internalise authority, making expensive state violence less necessary. The sources argue that traditional religious values and their modern secular equivalents serve to pacify the oppressed by making their suffering feel spiritually or morally meaningful. Ultimately, this psychological conditioning ensures that individuals police themselves, preserving power structures through a self-sustaining cycle of voluntary obedience. This "energy-efficient" domination is presented as a sophisticated technology of power that Nietzsche urged humanity to recognise and reject.
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