m1a,4

Here there's a "force field" that has been created by immediate experience, one that has been lost but replaced by a new "field of force" related to work experience, or planning. Thus the new force field assumes the shape of the old, but for contrary purposes. We see the loss of private life, of contemplation, idleness, and its associated individuality (even as this individuality contradicts the impersonal surface nature of the citation), in preference for planning on a mass scale, one that rejects individual experience. The mass scale is work experience and thus mass industry, sales, and the stock exchange, such that old world and individually based governmentality as might be expressed through the work of Machiavelli or Richelieu has a very different import, where those forces are re-routed from feudal society into forces of the mass market and not much more. This passage makes clear the role of idleness in consumer society, how Benjamin handles its historic role as countervailing force to the market (it's in fact a force that plays the market...). And we can expect that a similar dynamic is at work in talk of "immediate experience," leisure, and so on (but this was all clear in the first passage of the convolute).