Yes. I am sure. We don’t have paramilitary organizations assisting the state. The fascist economic systems were efficient and I would say evil. They worked. Our economy? Not working like that. Not at all. And I wouldn’t want it to. It’s a Faustian bargain.
All of our prisons can be pretty bad, horrific even. That depends on the state, and the facility and the level of offense. We still execute people. Holy fuck. Only a few countries still do that. Even that, all of that. It’s not Dachau in the 1940s. Our prisons are criminal factories. recidivism in a modern country at our rate is ridiculous.
It’s not Rwanda, it’s not Srebrenica. It’s not that bad yet. Nowhere near as bad.
And the power of the state to criminalize anything, exists everywhere, you get teh country you vote for, but there’s only so much people will take though.
Living isn’t a crime. Breaking the law is a crime. If you don’t want to go to prison, don’t break the law while poor. Not even a little bit.
White collar criminals get a buy, sadly. Look at how many were prosecuted for the last Financial collapse. No one from the Bush administration. No one from the Obama administration. No one from the Banking industry. No one from the Housing industry. No one. Middle class people get a buy. The poor? Better walk that line.
Hear me now, I’m not saying things are perfect, I’m not saying that the topics we are talking about right here are even good. They aren’t. But hyperbole is a fantastic short term tool. Why? Because it makes people look. You and I both know the feeling of writing something, and really putting your back into it, and no one reads the effing thing. But when they look, and it was 50% or mostly hype. They stop looking and next time they don’t come back. And the more of it they get the more desensitised they become. It’s a gateway drug to obsolescence.
