Government in Bunkers

Charles, your description of the police station with its metal detectors, steel fences, bullet-proof glass, ID requirements, etc., is far from bleak. On the contrary, it reflects what has become commonplace with government facilities everywhere: a distrust, fear, of “the people” whose interests these yahoos like to pretend they “serve and protect.” When state functionaries become this fearful of ordinary people, future relationships can only further deteriorate.

What prognosis could be offered for a family, a workplace, or even a grocery store, that required people to submit to such “security” practices before being able to deal with one another? If, for example, we were so distrusting of our children, would our family long remain intact? Would we continue to work or shop at a business that so feared our presence? This may be but one more piece of evidence that state systems are collapsing, taking with them those who believe that force and fear are effective ways of holding societies together.

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