Every society is held together by a number of forces. Trust, tradition, blood, fear, force and convenience work in combination to keep a society whole. Until recent, trust was the strong force in Scandinavian societies. Tradition and blood played a large role, but those have been diluted with diversity. North Korea, in contrast, relies on the threat of state violence to keep society together. Tradition and blood still play a role, but it is mostly fear of being sent to a camp that keeps society together.
In America, trust was always the force that kept local community together, while tradition kept regional identity together. America was always a big country with lots of room, so self-segregation smoothed over the rough spots. With the elimination of free association and the importation of millions of foreigners, social trust is rapidly breaking down and being replaced with state force. For now, trouble makers are sent to diversity training, rather than a labor camp, but the idea is the same.
The thing is, America still remains a big place with lots of room, so the North Korean model is not going to hold it together. Even the Scandinavian model of soft authoritarianism, run by mentally disturbed women, is unlikely to hold the country together in a crisis. In fact, that model is probably the least plausible in a crisis, as the women in this sort of system are crisis actors, not crisis managers. Politics gives them the attention that normal life does not afford them.
That’s something to keep in mind when thinking about what comes next. The soft, feminine authoritarianism we see in the West is a free rider. It is possible because of the inertia from the old high trust societies that came before it. If Finland faced a real crisis, one that threatened its existed, the first thing that happens is their pixie of prime minister is replaced with a serious person. The same would be true in Canada, where their gender fluid prime minister is mostly a luxury item.
Putting that aside, the question for Americans is where would trust be placed in a crisis, enough trust to wield the force necessary to mobilize the country. For a long time, Gallup has been polling people about confidence in various institutions. For example, in 1973, 65% of the America public said they had a great deal or quite a lot of trust in religious institutions. Today it is 36%. The change in the no trust column has gone from single digits to 25%, more than the great deal of trust column.
A similar decline in trust has occurred with the political institutions. The Supreme Court still enjoys the trust of 38% of the public. Those court trusters are probably the Baby Boom generation, as they have always had the highest trust in the courts. Even today, they will argue that the courts will protect the constitution. This is why they support Trump, despite his problems. He’s going to nominate good judges, so the argument goes, and those judges will follow the constitution.
Congress, on the other hand, is down to 11%. That seems amazingly high, but maybe that number reflects the public work force. Even crazier, 45% of the public trusted Congress in 1973. That right there is a great metric when trying to understand the relationship between diversity and social trust. The flood gates of diversity opened in the 1960’s. As the hordes poured into your cities and towns, social trust began to collapse, showing up in the people’s house of government.
Another area where the cancer of diversity reveals itself is in the schools. Trust in the public schools is at 29% from 59% in 1973. A half century ago, Americans could send their kids off to the local school, knowing their classmates would be neighbors and the teacher would be someone they knew. Today, the grammar school classes look like the bar scene from Star Wars and the teachers are dangerous weirdos. The kids pass through metal detectors and they wear Kevlar book bags.
Trust in newspapers has not changed much. That’s probably not a very good metric when trying to figure out what’s happening. The only people consuming newspapers these days are old white people. Within a decade, most cities in America will no longer have a newspaper. The big media sites are megaphones for the managerial state, so comparing them to newspapers is not accurate. Still, the numbers suggest that white people have always been skeptical of the news media.
The two institutions that jump out are the military and police. Today, 53% of Americans say they trust the police a great deal or quite a lot. Even more impressive, 73% of the people trust the military. The only other “institution” with this degree of trust is small business, and that’s not really an institution. Instead, that’s residual trust in community that has carried over in spite of diversity. People still have a high opinion of the local business man who contributes to his community.
That brings us back to those forces that hold society together. In modern America, diversity is destroying trust in the civic institutions. The long culture war has destroyed trust in religion. The two most trusted institutions are the two given the right to use deadly force in defense of society. Like the executioner, the warrior, is permitted to spill blood, thus elevating him to the highest rank of every society. In a crisis, it is always the executioner and the soldier, who rise to the top.
There is a difference between the warrior and the executioner. The latter is the last line of defense, something tolerated, not celebrated. The former is a forward deployed defender, celebrated for his spilling of blood. No society throws a parade for its famous executioner. The soldier, on the other hand, is a hero to his people for spilling the blood of the enemy, real or imagined. Unlike any other citizen, if there is doubt about his actions, he gets the benefit of the doubt.
It is tempting to assume from this that the next step to the diverse multicultural paradise is a world run by cops and soldiers. Most likely, it will be the custodial state that incorporates both institutions. Instead of the military seizing control of the government, it will be corporations seizing control of the military and police. That’s what you see with tech companies helping local police install surveillance equipment in the homes of suburbanites and cameras on the streets of the ghetto.
Over the next year, Americans will be forced to stand in line at their local motor vehicle department to get a “real ID.” This will be required to enter a government building or travel on an airplane. Soon, it will be required for banking, travel from one zone to another, and all government and corporate services. To have a social media account, will require you provide your real ID. To have phone service or e-mail will require you to show your papers to an officer of the corporate state.
The role of cops and soldiers will be the same as in the prior arrangements. Instead of these institutions defending the civil institutions, they will be deployed to defend the new custodial state. They will get awards for capturing twitter trolls, instead of capturing bank robbers. Social trust will be replaced with fear of ostracism, the force of the corporate state and the convenience of weekend drone delivery. These are the forces that will hold together the post-national custodial state.
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Tangentially to your point re; military/police filling the trust gap. Yesterday, I watched as a congressman (x3) lathered himself up about prosecuting Trump after his term in office is over. There’s a very good reason we have traditionally not gone after our supreme executive post-term. The Roman model of doing so led directly to Julius Caesar garnering personal favor with his legions; stretching out his governance service as long as possible to avoid prosecution, and eventually crossing the Rubicon to seize power when it was time to face his political foes. The people in high offices here used to understand… Read more »
Here’s the future: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-50819772
Ahhhhh, the Winner takes All Society. We remember thee well. The Monopolies. The Wealth Inequality. The Dictator. The Harems. The Executions. But the Progressives will do it right, this time. We’ll have social media. And civil rights.
In healthy societies, people feel like they are doing well when the community around them is doing well, warts and all. In an unhealthy society, stomping on the people around you, to meet and protect your own needs and wants, is the name of the game. We are in the crossover right now. The CivNats and CivLibs believe that things will naturally go back to the old way of things, given time. Maybe so, but history tells us that we have to go through a crucible first.
Targeted Individuals are real. Seemed to go from government to corporations to gangs/cults. Usually involves Stazi gang stalking (organized) and DEW attacks. Precrime ‘solution’ also using informant networks.
DEW weapons are real (EMF, Microwave etc) and are silent and seem to be unstoppable. Surveillance has gone WAY beyond what most people think.
Can’t seem to copy so look up ‘Philadelphia Sound weapons/park’, also ‘sound weapons airports’. Are your ‘moods and feelings’ your own?
Also, Directed Energy Weapons Market It’s a big deal.
Basically we’re going to end up living under a totalitarian regime. As dour as that prediction is, it looks accurate enough. Is it just a coincidence that our greatest strength (“diversity”) requires such a massive increase in state/corporate power?
Basically we’re going to end up living under a totalitarian regime
We’re almost there already. “Freedom’s just another word…..”
The high trust and confidence in the police and military is probably in large part due to their historic role, the limited number of interactions with both for most people…and their hero status in movies and TV. Once they become the full-time enforcers as the Praetorian Guard for ZOG that trust and confidence with evaporate. Unfortunately, Z most likely has this pegged perfectly. As long as people can still trust someone they will go along to get along. For dissenters this will be a very bad period. The good news is that things will get worse as the battle lines… Read more »
The police enjoy high trust among whites (and probably fairly high among Hispanics and Asians) because for the time being, they are protecting us from the diversity, mostly blacks. When the main role of police becomes enforcing Diversity Uber Alles and the Left’s social credit system, the white public’s trust in the police will collapse quickly.
The military (the world’s largest middle-class welfare program) enjoys unprecedented propaganda. Also, a lot of whites have family that served. The military likely remain popular unless those guns are turned inward.
Military and Police public trust is directly proportional to the governments they serve. Public trust in these two instruments of government power is rapidly dwindling. Social engineering(gays, trannys, etc., in the military), an oppressive government/Corporate Media(they are more and more the same thing)that delegitimizes local police, and the rise of an observable Police State personified by a thoroughly corrupt DOJ and FBI, have assured that this American House of Cards cannot survive. To begin to halt this slide into totalitarianism the first step should be- must be – the overthrow of Corporate Media by any means necessary. They are the… Read more »
The media is the propaganda wing, but look at its trust level among white men. Even white men have begun to notice the hatred toward them from the media.
Propaganda can work against the ((elite)) as well as for them. Once you see through it, the ceaseless propaganda serves to be a constant reminder of your oppression and need to break away. I hate TV now.
Which came first – the destruction of free association and the importation of foreigners , or the government’s inclination to use force to hold “society” together? You might think it’s a chicken and egg problem, but I do not. The strength of American society’s embrace of free association and it’s tradition of trust (as a general rule – it didn’t always apply in all situations) – kept the “progressives” from imposing their will on the native American people. So they went about creating the conditions that would allow them to use force to “hold things together”. Somewhere along the line… Read more »
The absence of serious men allows for leadership luxuries in the modern state. Judging the seriousness of a man can be entirely passively observed. What they do with their money, family, time, God…words matter little. It’s the fruit of the tree that proves it’s worth. So the browns rising to power and influence, don’t realize their allowances are tolerated. They earned none of their positions. The serious men checked out? While I’m not an accelerationist, it’s hard not to assume there is a benefit to the clarifying fire of a real crisis (looks like we get to pick from finance,… Read more »
Spectacular work as usual, Z. 👍 Speaking for Canada though… the only way Prime Minister Pink Socks will be replaced, is if we can find a wahman or a smelly fuggin vibrant to replace him. There are so many leftist faggots, commies, and fwenchmen here that the country would probably just double down. It’s universal too; the cuckservitive leader of the opposition just resigned because the peasants are rebelling and going dissident on him. So, after losing Scheer The Steer…I heard the cucks have some old vag that I’ve never heard of to fill in. Fcuk Canada, I want a… Read more »
If the military is so trusted, you’d expect a junta to take over and restore order. If they’d stand down and allow corporations to run things, you have to wonder if they’re worth trusting.
The method of control in our soft totalitarian society is the threat of termination of one’s employment. No new prisons required.
Looking forward to the day a RED state requires a REAL ID to vote.
It must have been self-evident to the political geniuses who inhabit our halls of government that they would have to employ the heavy hand of the police in order to enforce their “enlightened” laws. Recall, if you will, those soldiers Eisenhower sent to Little Rock. And once you get the public on board with the “necessity” of enforcing these laws, you are on the way to tyranny. Suddenly, law enforcement agencies of all kinds are now at the beck and call of the plutocracy as they finance their way to total control. I’m not sure when historians will look back… Read more »
My mind used to recoil in horror when considering the implications of CW2/economic collapse/long term grid down scenarios. Now I think it is the best thing that could happen to us. A decade or so without a functional electrical grid would end pretty much everything which ails the country. Nth wave feminism, welfare, the MIC, immigration, the totalitarian surveillance state, Political correctness in it’s entirety. All gone for a very long time. I ache for the future of my children, but we can excise the cancer now, or let it keep expanding until it ultimately ends us. I’m in VA,… Read more »
“a real ID” Nobody can buy or sell unless he has the mark of the beast.” Revelation 13:17
It’s clear that trust, beyond the people you know and live with in your tight little circle, is totally kaput. With that in mind, the near term task is not to restore broader trust, but to make sure the leverage of force and fear is aligned with us. If “live and let live” is dead (thanks, lefties, from Woodrow Wilson on up), then “every man for himself” is the new thing. Self sufficiency, local community, and bend all the institutions you can into alignment with what you want.
The custodial state is in greater fear of a Muslim neighborhood than 10,000 second amendment guys who shoot every weekend but live atomized lives.
What will hinder a custodial state?
Muslims who actually believe in their God and their clans.
They say go ahead and monitor me.
Now come into my clan and try to enforce your bullshit.
While white Christians say we will obey “our constitution” and respect “our government”
Christians have to man up and realize the government and the corporations ruling us now hate our guts in our own nation.
The hatred for a white man like Trump is a hatred for you.
The cities began collapsing in the 70s as city after city elected black mayors, black chiefs of police and other political cops, the city bureaucracies, transit etc. The turning of our once great cities into giants gibs projects and the ensuing white flight not only decimated the cities physically, but also culturally. Vibrant city communities turned into soulless suburbs and “vibrant” city communities. Of course these cities are all insolvent and require state handouts. My city is collecting additional state and federal funds by illegally taxing soda to food stamp recipients. Like every other city tax, it is just being… Read more »
To circle back to the question in the first paragraph: how will the new custodial state handle a crisis?
I guess that in a crisis the police would be deployed to protect government buildings, J3wish centers, mosques, and bathhouses.
I think the custodial state is the response. Look at 9/11. The normal response of nations would be to end all Muslim travel to the US and the deportation of these people to their home countries. Instead, the response was a vast increase in surveillance powers and an increase in domestic security. The response to the North Hollywood shootout was the militarization of the police.
The custodial state is the response to the crisis of legitimacy.
And as Derb often points out, we have taken more Muslim immigrants since 9/11 than in all our history before 9/11.
And I believe the ground zero mosque project is back on. The first time around I cared, now I don’t.
I bet most normal white people were pissed at the insolence. I bet many of our people cheered when Greg Gutfeld promised to build a gay club next to it. Now, I doubt any of our people care enough to muster an opinion.
If the response we see is termed “custodial” state, then what may I ask would be considered a “totalitarian” state? My take is that the only difference is one of technique—custodial being a 1st world, high tech response, the other reserved for 3rd world countries.
I think of the custodial state as a subset of totalitarianism. The security state, like the old Soviet Union is another subset. The difference between the two is that the security state is primarily focused on what you are not permitted to do. The custodial state is focused on what you are required to do. It’s why we are bombard with mission statements from corporations. They sound more like churches, because they are focused on their mission, which is always the care and protection of you, their customer, employee and community member. Put another way, when the security state executes… Read more »
Z-man—I adjust my thinking accordingly. 😉
Again – chicken and egg.
Probably why there’s so many people who think that 9/11 was some sort of government conspiracy.
The Homeland Security bill was already written up before the events of 9/11 – and the war across the Levant was already planned and argued for by the Neocons. But up until 3 buildings got destroyed and a bunch of people got killed – those in charge did not have sufficient amounts of stupid voters willing to support them – so they had to create them.
Insightful post but remember that the only things American white men value are sports, pussy, trucks/SUVs, military, police, guns and beer.
Correct.
The play is being made in Virginia as we speak. Their leaders are democrat fart suckers that just decided that the Constitution doesn’t work anymore and the 2A has to go – turn in your assault rifles or the cops or national guard will be around to visit. Looks like the dirt people have flipped them the bird, and things might get spicy. My money is on We The People, not They The Politicians.
For now, yes. We’re talking generations of propaganda. Deprogramming will take some time.
Have you ever entered a courthouse recently? Checkpoint Charlie indeed. I imagine all government institutions will be like that , even the quasi ones. I live in a decent small town but I don’t trust cops much. They lie more than anyone else. As far as the military, way too much worship given these people for so little benefit given back to normal Americans. Older Americans that support the charade of conservative judge appointments are nuts. Hasn’t the last few decade’s appointments taught us anything? Your take on corporations controlling all through the take over of these institutions is obvious.… Read more »
Cops and military serve the interests of the establishment and not the interests of regular folks. It is breathtakingly foolish to place so much faith in such institutions. And you’re spot-on about conservative judicial appointments. Judges primarily defend the establishment as well. The ruling powers have earned our maximum cynicism. We need to start developing ideas of how we might separate from them. That is the ultimate challenge of these times.
Those squaddies deserve al the love you can give them DW. If for no other reason that for the patriots… their hearts are in the right place. What’s been done to the military should have some politicians getting their necks stretched. Starting with a certain black baboon currently living in the Vineyard as the token for the Cloud people…
The pozz in the military and police is a bit more recent than in the other institutions Z-man has mentioned. I see both of them declining in trust levels to those of the other institutions given another decade or two. It was only under Obama that didn’t ask, don’t tell was done away with. Obama also replaced the generals who opposed such liberalization. With the result being that when he left office, the military was funding tranny operations and allowing male officers to wear dresses. Not to mention dropping standards to get women on the front lines in combat. We… Read more »
The idiots running the Uk don’t have the work ethic for the tyranny. Most of the money goes on their pensions so they don’t really have the cash either. I live in the countryside and haven’t seen or heard a police car for about 3 months. The local town doesn’t even have one policeman . Things seem to work. Americans often fixate on stories about someone being arrested over a Twitter post but that’s the point: they don’t have the resources to physically patrol or harass just pluck someone out of the internet and use the case to intimidate certain… Read more »
Self-policed rural “no go” zones for the aw-thoahr-uh-tees is the future.