Sustained domination produces habitual adjustment rather than rebellion among subjects.
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
Category: Causal Relationships
- XREF: Connects to the reader’s trust/observability analysis — habituated adjustment to domination parallels how collapsed mutual monitoring breeds predatory rather than rebellious responses, and echoes Hardin on how trust fails without observability.
- ADDENDUM: The fashion for crime and murder felt as legitimate echoes themes from the sacrifice article about how violence becomes ritualized and normalized within stratified societies.
Related
- Long domination produces adjustment to rather than rebellion (similarity 0.88)
- A group can retain superordinate status long after its subordinates vanish (similarity 0.84)
- Famished petty strata always defect to the right at decisive moments (similarity 0.84)
- Trust can be deliberately destroyed to enable domination. (similarity 0.81)