Modern order-making zeal demands everything justify itself by utility

Evidence

What may lift that possibility to the level of reality is, however, the characteristically modern order-making zeal; the kind of posture which casts extant human reality as a perpetually unfinished project, in need of critical scrutiny, constant revision, and improvement. When confronted with that stance, nothing has the right to exist just because it happens to be around. To be granted the right of survival, every element of reality must justify itself in terms of its utility for the kind of order envisaged in the project. This is, as I have suggested elsewhere (in Bauman 1987), an ambition which can be grasped best with the help of the “gardening” metaphor (uprooting the weeds to enable useful plants to grow and preserve the elegance of overall design). — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 428

Categorization

• DEFINE: Bauman’s ‘gardening’ metaphor defines the order-making posture that racialized schemes to improve humanity draw upon.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 428