. . "In my experience, reductionist analyses obscure more than they reveal.There is a HISTORY to the relation between person and state; and history is not reducible to a simple cause/effect schema based on materialist models of the behavior of 'stuff'.Nor is history reducible to a complex, 'plumbing of human-motivation' ideology based on some OTHER Frenchman's wacko scheme.IMNSHO. ;^)I could have said" . .