There’s a threshold or level of violence where the state no longer has a monopoly.

The monopoly only holds when the population consents (implicitly or explicitly) or when resistance is small enough to be crushed without systemic risk.

When violence reaches a certain scale… civil war, insurgency, cartel warfare, economic collapse etc… the monopoly shatters.

Suddenly, authority is decentralized. Legitimacy becomes local, tribal, or transactional.

This is not something generally speaking that you want to live through.

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I dunno, sounds kind of exciting 🤔

You must not have kids

And in that world self governance is key, yet most people can't handle that (yet)

I SEENT IT IN AFGHANISTAN. WOULD NOT RECOMMEND. INDEED, EXPERIENCING THE DARKEST PARTS OF HUMANITY MOTIVATES ME TO PREFER MINARCHISM OVER FULL ANCAP. EXTREMES INFORMING MEANS, IF YOU WILL.

Look I'll be one of the first to go when logistical networks break down, I'm insulin dependent and that stuff only lasts 6 months in the fridge.

But I still look forward to the collapse.

My hope is that I can pass on survival skills to people who aren't chronically ill and help increase their chances of surviving.

I'd rather live through that than allow them to continue with turning is into cattle.

I reckon we've got until 2028 to prepare.

The moment that the monopoly on violence starts to fade we will begin hunting known pedophiles.

There are at least 5 known pedophiles in my community who are protected by the police.

Repeat offenders who were moved here from other towns to protect them from their victims families and friends.

I think many 'hood' communities would thrive in that environment.

states getting prepared by legalizing forced vaccinations.....

the taliban in iraq and afghanistan. i forget how that turned out over the decades.

oh i remember, they are stronger and better equipped than before we spent, i mean wasted, 8 TRILLION for nothing

pretty good for rag tag rag heads against the MiGhTiEsT fOrCe on Earth!

When communities are homogenous, violence levels tend to be lower within them and any violence tends to be pushed outwards to strangers or other external communities. Rulers used to use this to their local advantage to stay on top and gain wealth and power. But as technology spread and their power grew, the rulers realised they had more in common with other rulers than the people they ruled over. Globalisation has lead to a power block at the top that is determined to stay on top and defend their privileges. To achieve this, they realised that they had to break up any emerging forces that threatened their control, Easy travel and communication means that any one of us can spread our ideas around the world with enough like minded people that they wouldn't know fast enough to crush this. United we stand, divided THEY rule....

As we can all see, their attempts to censor and control every aspect of our lives is gaining pace. The recent medical issue has shown how quickly they can lock us down and in place, powerless against anything they threw at us, but I think people are starting to notice that they don't have our best interests at heart.

You can read about this problem and solution in Sun Tzu's The Art of War.

For the safety and wellbeing of the public, a shift in the power structure requires a majority of support. If decisive support is not met then a collapse ensues like you were concerned about.

We chose this way (long way) rather than a junta during the Obama administration.

in the words of nostr:nprofile1qyv8wumn8ghj7urjv4kkjatd9ec8y6tdv9kzumn9wsq3vamnwvaz7tmjv4kxz7fwwpexjmtpdshxuet5qqsqfjg4mth7uwp307nng3z2em3ep2pxnljczzezg8j7dhf58ha7ejgqgzx3h - 'mandibles'

do you think we are heading there in the next decade or so? if you believe in the 4th turning, it seems like a non-zero possibility

hodl was the one who recommended mandibles to me 😂

haha nice

See Haiti today

does the monopoly really shatter though? has there ever been a point in history where the discrepancy is so great between the weapons the government has and the weapons we have? if it really got to the point of government collapse, they surely have the weapons to do what they need to do to us.

Incorrect.

I hope you are correct

Me and the boys when the power structure fails.

For me, hope all these power structures shatter. I didn’t realize bitcoiners were really just LARPING about being sovereign individuals and building citadels.

It’s all fun and games until you end up like what’s currently going on in Haiti.