"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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Conversely, to get compliance over a bunch of urbanite bugmen requires relatively little force. Modern police departments have more than enough to handle it, you don't even need all that military surplus gear that USA cops have access to.
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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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