Long domination produces adjustment to rather than rebellion

Evidence

Through this fictional account, by which Tocqueville manages to convey his reflections on the journey, we begin to grasp some of the elements of the peculiar process of adjustment to - rather than rebellion against - domination which to different degrees involves both Naples and Sicily: the absenteeism of an aristocracy lured by the pleasures and servility of the court; the predominance of private over public concerns, of duplicity, cunning, and favour over merit; and the fashion for crime and murder, which have become habitual and are even felt to be legitimate Moreover, not only did the Spaniards exploit distrust for the purpose of domination, but they taught some of their subjects to do so too and to pass it on to others. — Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking Cooperative…, 2121

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s core thesis: distrust engineered by a ruler collapses monitoring and observability, breeding accommodation not resistance. — connects to: Dominance is maintained through unstable equilibria that concede some subordinate interests; Peasant resistance to conscription catalyzed a new regime of state control — Khaled Fahmy, All the Pasha_s Men_ Mehmed Ali, his…, 490; Mafia-averse emigration unintentionally strengthens the mafia by removing opposition — Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking Cooperative…, 2187 (+9 more)
• DEFINE: Defines a ‘process of adjustment to domination’ as distinct from rebellion—useful vocabulary for the Saramago/Luhmann/Hardin synthesis.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking Cooperative…, 2121

Broader Connections

• Dominance is maintained through unstable equilibria that concede some subordinate interests #complicates (0.82)
• Peasant resistance to conscription catalyzed a new regime of state control #contradicts (0.80) — Khaled Fahmy, All the Pasha_s Men_ Mehmed Ali, his…, 490