community? collective? both pharmakons

"in fact, when i consider any social system that prevails in the modern world, i can't, so help me god, see it as anything but a conspiracy of the rich to advance their own interests under the pretext of organizing society. they will think up all sorts of tricks and dodges, first keeping safe their ill-gotten gains, and then exploiting the poor by buying their labor as cheaply as possible. once the rich have decided these tricks and dodges shall be recognized by society, which includes the poor as well as the rich, they acquire the force of law. this an unscrupulous minority is led by its insatiable greed to monopolize what would have been enough to supply the needs of the whole population." thomas more. "utopia" i have read utopia any number of times rather closely and i still cannot decide if it is serious, satire, or subversion...more was under sheriff of london and i could see where he would want as much behavior as possible to be public...peer reinforcement of the prevailing social structure by self policing drones..it is, in some ways, a very catholic ( or maoist...take your pick ) document with tinges of the authoritarianism that the overly collectivized society brings along with it...true collective action can help the majority resist the control of a wealthy minority, however, in the end, the focus becomes maintaining the individual's loyalty to the collective by coercion...that "peer reinforcement"...still...this is as concise an explanation of hegemonic culture as gramsci could ever hope to come up with...the collective and the community are closely related and both are pharmakons...panaceas in small doses...toxic in overdose...henry may have had more reasons beyond his refusal to recognize the supremacy for wanting more dead.