Chapter 19 — Archipelago; where do the information platforms that are states live? The EU, Paragraph 20 (§19.00.20.00)

Even if this realisation is accepted, what can possibly be done about it? As has been seen, in state-making change frequently, but not necessarily, comes through violence. The same is true of the EU: violence is exercised not in the form of war but through regulation. The formation of its archipelago has not been achieved through geographical but informational conquest. The EU acquis has, in essence, a double meaning, it is a modern Janus of sorts: new member states must adopt it in full and adhere to it. There is violence in regulation, just as in war, but one that hurts humans infinitely less. (This is not unprecedented—it was anticipated in Europe by the Napoleonic codes, which long outlived their instigator. Of course, even in that case, his example followed that of Imperial Rome and, in any case, was that of a lawyer following legionaries or grenadiers, and not vice versa.)

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