Emancipating from authority also destroyed the commitment needed for politics.

Evidence

As the sociologist Ingolfur Bluhdorn notes, Westerners emancipated themselves twice: first from traditional authorities, then from the kind of political commitment required to accomplish that emancipation. Who could command them to reverse course? To extend Baudrillard’s simile, recreating the mass party of the industrial age might be likened to the genomic reconstruction of a mammoth from DNA samples extracted out of the Siberian permafrost—a scientifically interesting but practically pointless exercise. — Anton Jäger, Hyperpolitics, 241

Categorization

• XREF: Directly bears on the reader’s evaluation question: whether Jäger’s proposed escape routes (rebuilding parties/unions) are proportionate to the diagnosis, since he himself concedes they may be impossibly nostalgic.
• DEFINE: Bluhdorn’s double emancipation is a compact formulation of the hyperpolitical trap: freedom from constraint hollows out the capacity to act.