Security states facing existential crisis become violent military policing states

Evidence

Children of Men projects elements of the contemporary present into the future to describe the consequences of historical amnesia, both to underscore the potential danger of forgetting history and to point to the progressive destruction of human, ecological, and technological relationships in the contemporary world. The film’s future world is marked by mass migration, ecological despair, normalization of the police and warfare state, paranoia, and technological stagnation. Everyone is an immigrant, and birth is overwhelmed in the violent ravages of a permanent war on terror. The security state, facing extinction, has become a military state that resorts to violent policing in an all-out struggle for survival. — Junaid Rana, Terrifying Muslims, 416

Categorization

• ADDENDUM: Relevant to ‘On Sacrifice’ as the security state rendering citizen sacrifice/mobilization permanent, and to ‘Grafting & Growth’ only tangentially; more directly it connects to homeland security framing of the War on Terror.
• FICTION: A usable dystopian premise: a state’s survival crisis collapsing the police/warfare distinction — useful for near-future fiction about racialized policing.