“…Through means such as these, liberal subjects are educated in the broadest sense, learning to "read, write, cipher, plan" as well as "defer to those most rational in society." 35 In short, liberalism is less an empirical response to a 'natural world' already existing, than an immersion in a consciously created, 'social dream,' that conditions and empowers liberal subjectivities. The system of ideas reflecting and reinforcing such arraignments is, to a greater or lesser extent, 'agent-neutral,' universalized, and ahistorical.…”