It increases the cost of sabotage and blamelessness, which might bring people to your side who would enter awareness if the cost had not been made so high, and which raises the ideological overhead of blameless people whose main goal is avoiding the lower costs of repair so they can profit from the higher cost of brokenness.
A. R. Moxon, Sabotage: Part 5 – Neutrality & Witness
Typing this out, it all does seem a little abstract without the context — Moxon lays a lot of conceptual groundwork about “the blameless society” in the many thousands of words (over several newsletters) that precede this passage, and the whole thing is a meditation on sabotage and repair as they characterize the US and global society. But that first sentence is really the key anyway.
Not unrelated, the Office of Justice Data dropped a bunch of data on internal affairs cases at New Jersey law enforcement agencies.
Not not unrelated, I’ve got a book coming in the mail.
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