I've often said that the problems with black America are social in nature and that there is a deep undercurrent of racism in America masked behind complex psychological mazes and political correctness that prevents these issues from getting resolved. I talk about how we need "social approaches" to solve problems, and people like Eturnal and Usd assume this means cutting checks and hiring bureaucrats. I've never really fleshed out what I mean, and I'm bored and feel like going on a self-righteous, pedantic monologue, something I don't do very often, so I think I'll do just that.
-Hire more police and put one on every corner - literally.
-Create a new federal secret police, with wide investigative powers over other organizations.
-Universal daycare and medical care.
-Aggressive primary education.
-Reintroduce conscription.Hire more police and put one on every corner - literally.This may seem an odd suggestion considering how critical I am of the police. But contrary to what people believe, I do appreciate the utility of the police. The problem, in my eyes, is that the cops are usually preoccupied with other things than their mission, like harassing random people and eating donuts.
Cops don't do as much as they could to bring the crime rate down in troubled areas because they are lazy and cowardly by nature - nowhere are there more cops at the local Dunkin' Donuts or jacking off in their cruiser than in troubled, high-crime areas, because the job is not so easy there and provides less opportunities to power-trip without the danger of getting one's head blown off or beaten to a bloody pulp.
I believe the key, then, is to change that equation. Fewer police should be mobile; their role should be less responding to high-profile crimes and more ensuring physical security in a given area. Streets should be kept free of drug peddlers, thieves, muggers, and common criminals, so people can go about their business, and more importantly, so the next generation of black people grow up in a stable, secure environment.
The police should be de-militarized - uniforms should be blue again instead of black, ranks should be redefined in civilian terms - "patrol" instead of "sergeant", "supervisor" instead of "lieutenant", "director" instead of "commander", dress code should ban sunglasses, police kennels should be closed, and firearms, heavy weapons and riot gear should be restricted to times of riot or insurrection. This will make the police more a "law and order" institution and more suited to bringing crime down through intercessory action and general security.
I firmly believe that both the pervasiveness of criminal culture and the attitudes of authority are the driving force behind much of the characteristic attitudes of black America - the lack of a sense of enfranchisement and terrible instability and culture of fear that undermines a sense of responsibility and self-respect. Ensuring civil and lawful society is more important than bringing the murder rate down.
Create a new federal secret police, with wide investigative powers over other organizations.Yes, we already have the FBI. What I propose here is a powerful, anonymous organization with police powers
only over county, state and federal employees, and management of incorporated businesses. Against elected officials and private citizens, they have no police powers.
These agents would be anonymous and known and addressed only by number. They would be assigned by lottery, every two years, to each ZIP code, and wear a mask and a wire whenever in public. They (and their families) would live on large, federally owned resorts, be forbidden from owning any other property, and be required to eat nothing but MREs and cafeteria food. They would be paid very well and receive a generous pension. As with the Secret Service, employment would be invitation-only and recruitment would be mostly amongst experienced lawyers and judges. The agents would be accountable only to the chairman of the agency and to the President.
Imagine a cross between Gandhi and Judge Dredd.
The function of this organization would be similar to a tribune of the plebs or political commissar - to protect citizens against their government, to prevent corruption and laziness, and to ensure the political reliability of the state apparatus.
I believe that such an organization would be vital to improving the lot of the unfortunate in this country by forcing public employees to care about doing their jobs properly, something they usually don't if their audience is the poor and disenfranchised.
Universal daycare and medical care.Unlike most people who talk about those things, I'm not interested in the plight of women, or a desire to see people be healthier. My goal here is to make society more stable: I believe that children are best raised such that they are not perceived as a burden - this is a major problem with black America - not for the sake of the parents, but because that sort of treatment damages the child's long-term social identity and makes them slavish and irresponsible. I believe that universal daycare and medical care will improve the moral quality of the next generation - again - by ensuring stability and enfranchisement.
Aggressive primary education.Primary education isn't working because the system vacillates: schools are big corrals with no clear mission and jaded, lazy staff. I would fix this by:
-introducing a rigid, standardized, fundamental-based federal curriculum
-introducing school uniforms and standardizing them across the entire country; the uniforms would include
kepi-introducing federal academies at the elementary level for children identified as gifted
-administrative identification of all students only by ID number and never by name
-banning all non-baseline school programs
-banning all non-fundamental education
-banning private education
-extreme emphasis on both conformity and competition, through things like military-style marching practice and forms of academic competition deliberately designed to pit students directly against each other, such as "
Around The World" and spelling bees
The goal here is to take the concept behind busing to the Nth degree. I believe that if students of all races, all genders, all backgrounds are forced to both cooperate and compete, and are not permitted to express any sense of affiliation except that which is allowed by the school, attitudes will shift and the next generation will learn important skills such as sportsmanship, discipline and pugnacity. I believe this in turn will improve the employment and paternal skills of black America.
Reintroduce conscription.My notions of how to fix society are conceived on the principle that there is a reciprocal relationship between enfranchisement and confidence. People will be more willing to defend a state and society if it provides for them, but the opposite is also true.
Today's professional army was created as a sort of compromise after the Korean and Vietnam Wars - young people were sent off to die in unpopular wars, and the social turmoil this created was ultimately resolved through a professional army. I believe this was an inappropriate response, and what really should have happened was more national soul-searching about those wars. So today we have the Gulf and Iraq wars, which probably wouldn't have happened if we had conscription. More importantly, I believe that ending conscription has created a dramatic gulf between not only the armed forces and the population at large, but also between the government and its citizens. I think this is a major, but overlooked, contributor to the disaffection black America has for the government.
Furthermore, our professional army is very reliant on technology and training to do its job, as opposed to the armed forces of countries like Israel or India or China, which do not issue heavy body armor or expensive electronics to their conscripts because that would be uneconomical and require more training than is practical. As the economy declines, our military style must adapt (the Romans did the same thing in their later years, watering down equipment quality as revenue dried up).
The 21st century will be a chaotic one - much more so than any in a millennium - and this trend will affect our society. Therefore, to ensure civil tranquility, I believe that strong occupational forces will be necessary to ensure stability both within and outside our borders, and therefore, America must make the shift to a police army, backed up not by technology but sheer number of bodies. If you doubt this, go look at West African pirates or the situation in Iraq or Afghanistan. If we do not emphasize global security, the chaos will spread, and -
within our adult lifetimes - aggravate the widening divisions in American society.
In conclusion, it's a testament to how bad video games these days are that writing massive walls of text is more fun than playing them.
