The way you connect this with the alarming impact of fentanyl is thought-provoking. However, I’d like to bring to your attention that the situation is much more intricate than it may seem. The trafficking of substances like fentanyl has connections that extend far beyond typical criminal enterprises, even reaching allegations of involvement by governmental bodies.
Moreover, drugs like cocaine, with their complex histories intertwined with political, social, and economic forces, don’t merely stand as symbols of decline. They reflect a broader network of influences, some firmly rooted in governmental policy and perhaps even contributing to what you describe as the ambient violence in our society.
Your mention of a surveillance kleptocracy rings true for many. The nuanced interplay between personal freedom, security, and the state’s control seems to be at the heart of contemporary debates. How this feeds into the societal issues you describe is indeed a complex and intriguing subject.
I’d encourage further exploration of these matters, taking into account the intricate realities that govern our modern world. A deeper understanding could enrich this conversation and lead us to more comprehensive conclusions.
Establishing the financial economics of productivity and its relationship to the Western Liberal Enlightenment conceptualization of the public good along a non-differentiable surface of capture from WWII to the present is a masters thesis alone.
The level of ambient violence in a surveillance kleptocracy with a nascent domestic security apparatus breaking through that of a country in the grips of a 7-sided civil war, this being the tip of the iceberg because the non-violent people with no hope are suiciding with fentanyl at some staggering multiple of that, and this being caused by capture is hard to prove but easy to see absent an agenda.
I don’t want to see a climax more intense than how far we’ve already traveled down that road.