A government with aggressive surveillance ambitions but a decaying police department and justice system looks to me very much like the guy with a mountain of guns and ammo but no parallel investment in something like battlefield medicine. Whatever you're telling yourself about the reason for what you're doing, it is manifestly not correct, at least going by other investments I would expect to see and find neglected.
It's that they don't have the basic strength of building alliances in the first place - something every kid is supposed to learn through the joys and pains of playing together. Bullies are not generally the popular ones, but neither are the loners.
To put it another way: castles can't survive siege forever. They are a delaying tactic until outside help can arrive.
"The Dauphin, whom of succors we entreated, Returns us that his powers are yet not ready To raise so great a siege. Therefore, great king, We yield our town and lives to thy soft mercy." -- Henry V, Act 3, scene 3
The time to build your community is now, before things get so bad every helpless individual is looking for a group to save them.
that said, I wouldn't be surprised if the Amish already have a small stockpile for practical use cases like hunting and keeping away the English
I’m lucky to live in a walker-friendly neighborhood where most homes aren’t walled off by privacy fences. I’ve found our communal strength in talking to neighbors about the cameras that feed and feed off our fear in isolation. It’s a choice.
the people who go off into the woods as uber survivalists or whatever die alone and forgotten from an infected toenail or something equally as stupid while the society full of people down the mountain thrive and people remember each other.
its wild to me how many people are suckered in by the never ending fear mongering that prepper businesses push on them without ever thinking it through.
When some folks came by checking for unlocked back doors years ago… they skipped my house.
Don’t even need the dog sometimes.
Would we have such a problem with cameras if the videos were stored locally and not in the cloud?
Happy to provide sources when back at my keeb if rqstd.
Yea, so the the next layer is, why are people committing crimes? I've made it clear I don't think you can just "turn on safety."
> Wealth inequality raises crime risk
So would we have that big of a problem with cameras everywhere if they recorded locally and we had UBI?
> but community cohesion partially buffers that effect.
How do you measure "community cohesion?"
Dog barking at mail delivery person. Delivery person goes away. Dog thinks barking saved the home.
What a great analogy.
I feel like nowadays with all the political FUD about "crime and safety" here in LA, this should be required reading