The best theory I've seen of problems with policing is the overuse of policing as a governance mechanism: "don't solve problems until they become bad enough to be policing problems"
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I rarely talk about comparisons to India because native-born Americans are absolutely convinced they have absolutely exceptional versions of every problem that require exceptional solutions. Leads to interesting reactions when I *do* make such comparisons.
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US Conservative: "people in developing world are actually poor and at least work hard... our poor are lazy, undeserving types who could have what we have if they were only willing to work harder" US Liberals: "everyone can have a mansion if we taxed 1%ers right"
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For those who don't get how the US poor can be worse of than Indian poor despite being materially better off, here is a post I wrote about that a while back, positing a "4th world condition"https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2019/04/08/weirding-diary-7/ …
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Sincerely, how is it worse here? My understanding is the material conditions (eg running water) are significantly better
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Yep, I just said the same thing (along this line) Not adding up. Thesis is confusing to follow.
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It's not adding up. The problems here are still nothing compared to problems ppl face in India. I think the US cultural/political wars are like allergies. Since there is less things to fight outside (or for survival), the ppl attack each other.
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I think this is also about how the concept of freedom has has been deployed - a) the version of freedom on which the nation was built is one that was necessarily founded on social striation and exploitation
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And b) we’re now living with the residual effects of that fact, as the concept of freedom (in the US mythos) has become way for certain groups to reaffirm their power and position
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