The GENERAL CONTEXT of such use is:
maya, academia and the social order: The educational system has never been able to present more completely the illusion (maya) of absolute autonomy with respect to all external demands, and in particular with respect to the interests of the dominant classes, than when the consonance between its essential function of inculcation, its function of conserving culture and its function of conserving 'the social order' was so perfect that its dependence on the objective interests of the dominant classes could remain unnoticed in the happy unconsciousness of elected affinities. So long as nothing intervenes to disturb that harmony, the system can, in a sense, escape history by enclosing itself in the production of its reproducers, as in a circle of eternal recurrence, since it is, paradoxically, by ignoring all demands other than that of its own reproduction that it most effectively contributes to the reproduction of the social order.