A CONTINUOUS INTERDEPENDENT WEB OF ROUTINES
Individuals working and living in metropolitan areas (as well as in many rural regions) move, think, and communicate in a continuous interdependent web of routines that discipline and manipulate their work, leisure activities, residence, transportation, consumption, relations with government, political beliefs and voting behavior, family life, care and education of children, and mental and emotional responses.
The standardization, impersonality, and unresponsiveness of mass organizations derive from their reliance on routinization, which replaces the move flexible and informal disciplines of the compact and autonomous social institutions and contributes to the alienation and frustration of the social groups and individuals enveloped in them…. The results of managerial social destruction and routinization are evident in the brutalization of contemporary social life — the increase of violent crime, divorce and desertion, illegitimacy, deviance, the use of drugs and stimulants, and social irrationalism and destabilization.
While the routines imposed by the soft managerial elite serve to enhance its own power and to regulate the mass population within the apparatus of mass organizations, they are insufficient replacements for the informal, personal, private, and social institutions the regime has weakened. The managerial routines are designed to enhance the dominance of the soft elite and the operations of the mass organizations it controls, not to provide stable and satisfying psycho-social bonds and functions for the subordinate society.
Sam Francis, Leviathan and its Enemies