the conceptual-perception that value, price, profit and wage are ultimately relative and a matter of what an entity can get away with in the marketplace, the socio-economic objective of mass surveillance and social discipline is to sustain value, price, profit and wage determinations and stability at whatever the cost. All quantifiable values and unquantifiable values produced by creative-power, such as socio-economic confidence, which buttress the capitalist modes of production, consumption and distribution, must be protected, defended and solidified. Subsequently, a soft-totalitarian-state has developed alongside this social constructive process, i. e. a totalizing military-industrial-complex, in an effort to normalize outlandish values, prices, profits and wages, in addition to the fluctuations and the relativism of arbitrary value, price, profit and wage, produced through the social constructive process itself. As a society, socalled western democracies have moved beyond democracy into a new socio-economic formation, the political economic framework of the soft-totalitarian-state:
No longer is there the full possibility of counter-cultures and alternative-cultures [ with their individual value, price, profit and wage determinations ], operating independent and / or outside of dominant mainstream surveillance, discipline and culture. Counter-cultures and alternativecultures are now subsumed, monitored and disciplined within the parameters of the dominantculture of the soft-totalitarian-state, i. e. the [ omnipresent ] military-industrial-complex. It is softtotalitarianism in the sense that we as humans are not imprisoned, disciplined and punished akin to traditional hardline-totalitarian-states but we are monitored and under surveillance akin to traditional hardline-totalitarian-states. Like hardline-totalitarian-states, surveillance is total and continually seeks to refine its totality and its mechanisms of information gathering … but there is a litany of disciplinary and censorship mechanisms in effect that are soft in nature, capable of applying variable degrees of soft and hard disciplinary measures, depending on the situation and / or individual. What distinguishes the soft-totalitarian-state from the traditional conception of the hard-totalitarian-state is its ability to have nuances in its disciplinary measures, i. e. the ability to be as hard and as inhuman towards dissent and disobedience as hardline-totalitarian-states and the ability to be pliable, lax and nuanced towards various degrees of dissent and disobedience.[ 97 ]
The rise of this type of post-industrial, post-modern society, and its accompanying socio-economic formation, is predicated on the fact that the rational value base, that defined modern capitalism and its modern capitalist mode of production so eloquently outlined by Marx, has vanished and / or has been marginalized to the third-world factory system. With the realization that value, price, wage and profit can be positioned, given the right situation, at any level, means that those select few networks capable setting arbitrary values, prices, profits and wages at any conceivable level, need the appropriate disciplinaryapparatuses in place across everyday life so as to manufacture legitimacy, compliance and mass acceptance, pertaining to their arbitrary determinations veiled by free-standing economic laws. Consequently, the incessant broadening of the parameters of surveillance and the military-industrialcomplex, that is, the soft-totalitarian-state, across the stratums of everyday life so as to safeguard the inherent arbitrariness and relativism post-industrial, post-modern bourgeois-state-capitalism so desperately needs to progress.
The fragility of value, price, profit and wage determinations, under socially constructive modes of production, consumption and distribution, requires total surveillance, careful attention and varying degrees of discipline, due to the fact that a population, incensed enough at the arbitrariness of postindustrial, post-modern values, prices, profits and wages, can easily bring the whole house of cards crashing down on itself. As a result, within the parameters of post-industrial, post-modern bourgeoisstate-capitalism, i. e. the soft-totalitarian-state, the population is increasingly disciplined, statistically