Institutions used as instruments can be destroyed by their own alignment with compromised allies.
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- Subordinate class institutions can be absorbed to contain rather than end opposition. (similarity 0.82)
- Dominant powers benefit from engineering their subjects’ inability to trust (similarity 0.81)
- Hegemony must be won before power is seized, not merely imposed by force after (similarity 0.81)
- Power generates the will of the power-holder rather than serving it (similarity 0.81)
- Cooperation can operate independently of trust (similarity 0.80)
- Institutions are instruments made of thinking humans, not robots. (similarity 0.80)
- Institutional and legal constraints give people strong external incentives to be trustworthy (similarity 0.80)
- Development linkages can actually strengthen the patronage and corruption hierarchies they aim to override. (similarity 0.80)
- Cohesion and trust check government power, not merely establish social order (similarity 0.79)
- Elite police rule requires admitting neutral masses to bolster itself (similarity 0.79)
- An ultimate power to decide generates its own norms and cannot be trusted (similarity 0.79)
- Citizenship institutions assumed individual exceptional cases, not mass statelessness (similarity 0.79)
- Totalitarian ideology becomes as untouchable as arithmetic to members. (similarity 0.79)
- A unified hierarchical mafia reduces internal conflict and public violence. (similarity 0.79)
- Nietzsche reduced all ideology to a power struggle between illusions (similarity 0.78)