67. The Anglophone countries are a harder nut to crack, but I'm hopeful that non-compliance will win the day and force a return to realism in New Zealand and Canada. Britain and Australia will require a concerted technical and legal campaign. It's winnable though.
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68. Overall I'm hopeful. The technical currents are moving in the direction of fuller expression of the right to self-defense for the first time in several generations. Once individual and small-group self-defense is secured, more rights and greater autonomy tend to follow.
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69. People are far too attached to the idea of a state monopoly on the legitimate use of force.
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70. The fundamental basis of governing legitimacy is conflict resolution, not hegemonic control of people and resources within a jurisdictional remit. Law, courts, elections, and even formal limited feudal warfare are all means of resolving conflicts.
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71. Any state whose sole or primary means of resolving conflicts is the use of force is a form of tyranny. That's well understood in the historic sense, less so in the modern sense. We have blinders on when it comes to state abuse of force in our own time.
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72. You see the most salient examples of state abuse of force in the small, like when everybody involved in a petty neighborhood dispute gets tackled and arrested when the police show up.
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73. One of the major undercurrents surfaced by the protests and riots this summer is disagreement on the degree of violence that is permissible while putting down unrest. People tend to think the police are being far too violent or far too restrained, few see them as reasonable.
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74. This specification of the limits of legitimate state use of force is the sort of thing at stake in the coming renegotiation of the American (and ultimately Anglophone) social contract. That makes what's coming very, very dangerous.
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75. The social media platforms are cracking down hard on the reach of raw protest and clash footage, which is the only means we have of quickly ascertaining ground truth in these situations. When we hit a big discontinuity it's likely that we'll mostly be flying blind.
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As you said all industry is tech industry, and some of what currently gets called “tech industry” is better termed the social engineering industry given its ability to algorithically shape insight and behaviour