Subordination stops being degrading once framed as impersonal technique

Evidence

Voluntary military service, however, is one of its purest examples in our time. The intellectually and socially highest person may subordinate himself to a non-commissioned officer and actually tolerate a treatment which, if it really concerned his ego and feeling of honor, would move him to the most desperate reactions. But he is aware that he must bow before an objective technique, not as an individual personality, but only as an impersonal link requiring such discipline. This awareness, at least in many cases, prevents a feeling of degradation and oppression from arising. — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 764

Categorization

• DEFINE: Concrete illustration of what ‘objectification of super-subordination’ means — obedience that addresses only the role, not the personality.
• XREF: connects to: Articulated unity relates parts through differences and subordination, not identity; Karma doctrine justifies subordination by framing rebirth as punishment; Impartiality’s false symmetry neutralizes opposition and suppresses class content (+6 more)

Related

• Being subordinate to a thing reduces a person psychologically to a thing (similarity 0.83)
• Binary schematization’s completeness claim masks the imposition behind any dichotomy (similarity 0.81)

Broader Connections

• Articulated unity relates parts through differences and subordination, not identity #corroborates (0.70)
• Karma doctrine justifies subordination by framing rebirth as punishment #complicates (0.65)
• Impartiality’s false symmetry neutralizes opposition and suppresses class content #complicates (0.60)
• Objectified conflict follows its own intrinsic logic without subjective moderation #expands (0.50) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 306