I went back to Role of the State. The bit about a crowd photographing the thing that is watching them is still the strongest part. It makes more sense to me than trying to calculate what a neck should weigh.
14 State affairs
ROLE OF THE STATE

For most of human history it is quite expedient in retrospect to identify the vehicles by which governments misdirect public attention in the pursuit of absolution. What we desire to accomplish is to filibuster one of the core and poorly designed attempts to attain these ancient goals from what we have gathered.
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