Why this discrepancy between feeling well and being sick? Why are we such docile, even enthusiastic captives to the system of exclusion? Why is there so little need for surveillance and force? Why are the subtle disciplinary mechanisms so effective, to use a phrase of Michel Foucault (Blanchot 1987, 38; Foucault 1979)? Because our very selves have been shaped by the climate of evil in which we live. Evil has insinuated itself into our very souls and rules over us from the very citadel erected to guard us against it.
