RE: On Violence
December 15, 2024 at 12:46 am
(This post was last modified: December 15, 2024 at 12:47 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(December 14, 2024 at 11:47 pm)Angrboda Wrote: Here's an interesting thought to play with. Social consent can only occur because of the sanctioned violence of the police state.
That is a fun one. Perhaps a society will not reach or be stable at a form of loose consent unless it feels that it can enforce it's will, violently if necessary - so that the capacity for organized violence is in itself a central component of cohesion. Similar to our tendency to foster and then export our violence to the periphery and hinterlands as a component of "civilizing" both the edge and the center?
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