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When some people start relying on a imagined Movement, as in an imagined community, well, they put their individual ways and solutions in the closet, i.e. they tend to deprecate personal insight, creativity and initiative, in favor of cohesion and conformity with the larger group's policies and culture.

This is where the Movement can become a form of external regulation.

But here I ain't talking so much about living, active movements, such as the current teachers movement in the U.S., which appears to be starting to get students involved too. I was more referring to that passive conceptual ghost, like the "student movement" in Quebec, that's been pretty dead for a few years yet remains a kind of artifact in the rhetoric/worldview of some leftists. I do get there's a will to make it a kind of permanent entity, tho I ain't sure that's the best way to transfer it to newer generations of students.

So be sure not to plug that Anal Intruder on the 220V tho. ;0)