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What if the feds decided that the risk of revolution was so low that it would be an effective strategy to engage in social mapping by actively contributing in helpful ways to gain social access? (hexbear.net)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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High thoughts. A logical edge I would I would appreciate being talked down from.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

These are not the competent actors forged by WWII and the Cold War. That generation is mostly gone, retired or dead. Meritocracy is always one generation away from decaying into an informal aristocracy. The people who staff these agencies now, they haven't got the same drive. Ambition, perhaps. But it's a narrow, selfish ambition. The true believers end up crowded out by nepo-babies and self-interested bag grabbers. There was an era when any bonkers, long-shot pitch would get money and man-hours. That era is over. The money spigot is squarely the turf of private contractors.

Capitalism eats its own foundation and even the nat-sec dorks aren't immune to the long hospice of empire.