Increase the Power of Government with This One Weird Trick ｜ 9⧸4⧸25
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Summary
Always and everywhere power seeks to expand its reach and centralize control. This expansion of power has never been arrested by abstract principle or words on paper, it s only ever checked by the existence of opposing powers. Those opposing powers must have deep roots and independent resilience, and the ability to demand loyalty. They must project a sphere of influence in areas that are difficult for the state to replicate, providing a form of sovereignty that can resist the power of the government without having to engage in physical conflict.
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always and everywhere power seeks to expand its reach and centralize control this expansion of
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power has never been arrested by abstract principle or words on paper it's only ever checked by the
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existence of opposing powers those opposing powers must have deep roots and independent resilience
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and the ability to demand loyalty they must project a sphere of influence in areas that are difficult
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for the state to replicate providing a form of sovereignty that can resist the power of the
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government without having to engage in physical conflict communities with robust histories and
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traditions provide these opposing spheres of sovereignty the religion and folkways of these
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communities are established by generation after generation practicing them as if they are simply
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part of the rhythm of life the beliefs are transcendent deriving authority from forces
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that no earthly power can reproduce these communities build institutions to perpetuate their way of life
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and care for the well-being of their members churches schools libraries civic organizations
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unions and fraternal organizations pass down the values of that community preserve its culture
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and aid members who require assistance robust community creates an opposing sphere of sovereignty
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because it can make competing demands on its members the organizations inside the community provide
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critical services that the state cannot and provide a level of emotional and spiritual well-being
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that the state can't compete with it also requires a set of behaviors that are particular to the community
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if the members intend to stay in good standing behaviors that the state can't easily alter
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the loyalty of the members is necessarily split between the community and the government which
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prevents the state from expanding its reach the way of life in the community is deeply ingrained
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through hundreds if not thousands of years of custom and habit and the state is required to respect
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that if it doesn't want to face serious resistance the inhabitants of virtuous and well-organized
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communities that have existed over hundreds of years tend to accumulate wealth over time that's a
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benefit of being established over generations and maintaining virtuous habits they have the extra
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capital and leisure necessary to build robust institutions which can provide critical services
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and act as a safety net for their members these are the kulaks the middle class that have moved
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on from base subsistence to independence now this isn't the hyper individualism that is
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often called self-reliance in the modern world but a form of community reliance that allows its members
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stability those who are part of the community don't have to live in fear of their day-to-day needs
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being met they're not reliant on government services when things go wrong and so their loyalty belongs
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to the community first that's why the government needs to destroy them wait i didn't get charged for my
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in his book on power the political theorist bertrand de juvenal describes the classic strategy of high
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and low versus the middle the ruling class seeks to expand and centralize its power but the middle
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class stands in the way the lower classes rarely pose a threat because they're dependent and disorganized
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they don't have the excess capital or leisure time necessary to marshal political opposition
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it's the middle class with their private property institutions and wealth who can adhere to their
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long-standing traditions while withstanding pressure from the state in order to gain more power the
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ruling class must find a way to dissolve all opposing spheres of sovereignty including those created by
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robust middle-class communities to achieve this goal the ruling class allies with lower dependent
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classes that can be used to unseat the entrenched kulaks sometimes it uses the domestic underclass
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but this is less than ideal because they also tend to possess the same folkways and traditions as the
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middle class you really need to have a huge culture gap between the lower and middle classes a lot of class
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envy ultimately for this to work now bringing in a foreign underclass that's far more reliable because
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they have zero connection to the land or its traditions and are more willing to turn against
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those that are already residing there mass immigration provides cheap labor which tends to
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benefit the upper class that can afford nannies and gardeners but also provides a large body of new voters
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to whom promises can be made the diversity of the immigrant lower class means it doesn't have a cohesive
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culture or a set of traditions that can resist the will of the state they don't have the roots necessary
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to build resilient institutions that can help those in need they don't have the leisure or will to
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organize effective political opposition the lower immigrant class is dependent on the ruling class
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for their ability to enter the country get work achieve civil rights and obtain access to the franchise
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they often don't speak the language and tend to require some level of state welfare
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it's not just that the immigrant class is not motivated to oppose the expansion of the state
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they actually require its growth in order to succeed in order to provide these services to its new
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political allies the ruling class pillages the middle class the kulaks are blamed for the inequality
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that now exists within society and are guilted or eventually compelled into giving up some of what they
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have built in order to provide for the immigrant class this transfer of wealth from the middle class to the
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new dependent class helps the rulers secure power over the immigrants but very importantly it also
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helps to weaken the kulaks who are a natural barrier to the expansion of state power as they become poorer
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the kulaks lose the private property and leisure time that allowed them to build resilient institutions
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their day-to-day existence becomes more unstable and they're more likely to end up dependent on state services
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mass immigration also erodes the well-established culture which proved to be a barrier to power
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people in a community with deeply held traditions limit what the government can command but diverse
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groups with no unified culture have no such resistance as the native communities are forced to regularly
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interact with the new arrivals their shared identity begins to erode it's considered taboo to separate
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yourself from the newcomers or to maintain a separate culture the community institutions that
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once transmitted culture and helped those in need start to close the charities are exploited the common
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areas are defiled and those who maintain them see no reason to continue the effort for people they
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don't really recognize and with whom they share very little in common the ruling class makes it first taboo
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and then illegal for the communities to relocate and reform anyone who attempts to retreat from the
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consequences of mass immigration and reconstitute their old way of life becomes an anathema the kulaks
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are no longer allowed to reside in communities where they can live in the virtuous patterns of their
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ancestors or transmit those traditions through institutions and the virtue quickly fades the opposing
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spheres of sovereignty are destroyed and everyone becomes a rootless dependent of a state that now has a blank
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check to expand its power this is why mass immigration becomes a priority for almost
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every western liberal democracy it's a strategy that not only removes the barriers to expanding state power but
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actually creates a patronage machine that demands and fuels the expansion if we want an elite class that's
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responsive to the needs of the population they govern we must first cut off their access to outside
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populations that they can use to undermine the natives the middle class and its natural spheres of
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opposing sovereignty must be restored then and only then can we hope to cage the leviathan our ruling
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