I understand it now:
“Be reasonable!”
Perhaps the most powerful device, that a person experiences in his life, wa?”
Be reasonable: this is what the small and the big child hear.
Be reasonable: (then the implications follow: if you are sensible, then: do you stay healthy! then the implications and so on.)
I think, today it has become very daring, when someone says: “I don't want to be sensible.”
That does not mean, that therefore reason prevails.
The opposite is the case.
Horrible idea: People and institutions, who believe they are acting sensibly
and nobody tells them, that their actions miss the mark:—–
a result, which turns out to be humane and responsible. For as many as possible. Something like that.
Or better; in the smaller:
Who doesn't think they're sensible??
I know, that I am causing harm.
“Be happy!”: also a dispositv.
I tell the sensible: You cannot be happy with the dispositive of reason. Because happiness cannot be a dispositive.
(Foucault's language is very abstract and powerful, a whole rat's tail hangs on a single term)
(16.4.21)