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title: ""Our complex society relies on proxy violence to the extent that many…"
date: 2018-06-10
source: facebook
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# "Our complex society relies on proxy violence to the extent that many…

*June 10, 2018 · Facebook*

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[http://www.jack-donovan.com/axis/2011/03/violence-is-golden/](http://www.jack-donovan.com/axis/2011/03/violence-is-golden/){target="_blank"}
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\"Our complex society relies on proxy violence to the extent that many average people in the private sector can wander through life without really having to understand or think deeply about violence, because we are removed from it. We can afford to perceive it as a distant, abstract problem to be solved through high-minded strategy and social programming. When violence comes knocking, we simply make a call, and the police come to "stop" the violence. Few civilians really take the time to think that what we are essentially doing is paying an armed band protection money to come and do orderly violence on our behalf. When those who would do violence to us are taken peacefully, most of us don't really make the connection, we don't even assert to ourselves that the reason a perpetrator allows himself to be arrested is because of the gun the officer's hip or the implicit understanding that he will eventually be hunted down by more officers who have the authority to kill him if his is deemed a threat. That is, if he is deemed a threat to order.\"
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