Modern social boundaries must be re-naturalized through demonstrated truth rather than habit

Evidence

Separation of the Jews had lost its naturalness, suggested in the past by the territorial segregation and reinforced by profuse and obtrusive warning signs. It seemed instead hopelessly artificial and brittle. What used to be an axiom, a tacitly accepted assumption, became now a truth one had to demonstrate and prove; and ‘essence of things’ hidden behind phenomena that apparently contradicted it. New naturalness now had to be laboriously constructed and grounded in an authority different from that of the evidence of sensual impressions. — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 172

Categorization

• DEFINE: Identifies the mechanism whereby a boundary that was a given axiom must become a demonstrated ‘essence’ hidden behind appearances.
• XREF: connects to: Each society has a regime of truth that determines what counts as true; Belief that existing arrangements are natural blocks real social change.; Modern boundaries must be rebuilt on foundations immune to education and self-transformation — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 178 (+3 more)

Related

• Modern boundaries must be rebuilt on foundations immune to education and self-transformation (similarity 0.85)
• Belief that existing arrangements are natural blocks real social change. (similarity 0.85)

Broader Connections

• Truth creates sustainable structures within societies. #corroborates (0.85) — Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life An Antidote to Chaos, 702
• Societal requirements transform into self-justifying norms devoid of social origin #corroborates (0.82)
• The truth of ideas is independent of their social origins #corroborates (0.80) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 210