A binary war-between-two-groups model of society replaces the pyramid and three-orders images

Evidence

There are two groups, two categories of individuals, or two armies, and they are opposed to each other. And beneath the lapses of memory, the illusions, and the lies that would have us believe that there is a ternary order, a pyramid of subordinations, beneath the lies that would have us believe that the social body is governed by either natural necessities or functional demands, we must rediscover the war that is still going on, war with all its accidents and incidents. Why do we have to rediscover war? Well, because this ancient war is a […] permanent war. We really do have to become experts on battles, because the war has not ended, because preparations are still being made for the decisive battles, and because we have to win the decisive battle. — Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended, 1647

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the historical-political binary conception of society against ternary/pyramidal models.
• XREF: This binary-war model prefigures the friend/enemy distinction and will connect to later Islamophobia framing of two opposed civilizations.