As we discovered in the previous post, the state doesn’t have anything to gain any longer from ensuring everybody’s welfare. This means we are moving towards a model where nothing is expected from or offered to a significant part of the population. This large group of people will still have formal citizenship but will be de facto stateless. They will neither pay taxes not vote. In the US, this is already a very significant percentage of the population.
We are all making fun of the conceal-carry crowd, and they are very funny. However, they are sensing a great change happening: the interest of law enforcement agencies in prosecuting crime is waning. Police is getting militarized because its purpose is changing. It looks like an army because it is becoming one. This army is defending those with a functional statehood from the stateless-within-a-state.
Living during a tectonic shift is never very easy. Even people who are not entirely sure what a nation-state is feel disturbed by the news it is dying. And the changes we are seeing around us don’t look very attractive. But nobody ever gained anything from blindness. Besides, every state-form has both positive and negative characteristics. If we know what the new contract between the citizen and the state is, we will know how to adapt to it and won’t flail about aimlessly.
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