"Anything you come to rely on, can hurt you by doing nothing" The Kaczynskian take on modern tyranny is that you only need jackbooted goon squads dragging people off to gulags, if you're trying to get totalitarian rule over people who know how to grow their own food.
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To get compliance over the vast majority of people, you just threaten them with lack of access to the system's desirable outputs and they adjust their behaviour to get back into line. The minority who refuse, you just criminalise in some fashion.
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And of course, you don't want to go supporting criminals, do you? Because that'll get you cut off.
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That isn’t for the urbanites.
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I know. It's an implicit threat of "If you riot in the neighborhoods where the rich people live, we'll use this on you"
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I think it’s more nefarious than that.
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I agree. James Lafonde has some good takes on how a lot of the chimpouts are deliberately engineered. Most "anarchic violence" is really just the paramilitary arms of the cathedral working under the appearance of lawlessness.
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That’s exactly what it is. That’s why they’re more frightening than the average mob. The average mob will he stopped by the state. This mob IS the state. They want to enact a Reign of Terror to secure their victory in the culture war.
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The Cathedrals's methods, while potentially good for taking power, seem to have little scope for holding and sustaining it. I've noticed their centre of power is constantly shifting. Apart from big capital, they don't seem to be able to hold onto anything for long.
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They’re a very weak ruling class partially because I think they believe their own rhetoric. They’re high on their own supply. Where others would acknowledge failure and rethink, they double down and attack.
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They're only weakly Machiavellian, that much is for certain.
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