The protective state’s hidden principle is obedience owed even when protection fails

Evidence

There are two different schemas. The first seems to correspond to the state that we call “normal,” that of a protective or security-based sovereignty—what might be called the protectorate. In this case, political authority is structured by what Hobbes calls “the mutual relation between protection and obedience.” The sovereign protects me, and it is because he protects me that he has the right to force me to obey him. Schmitt condensed this into the formula “Protego ergo obligo”: I protect, so I am obliged. — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 558 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Legitimate political authority rests on an exchange of protection for obedience. — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 558; War reverses the protection-obedience relation so subjects protect the sovereign. — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 559; Protective powers actively maintain their subjects’ vulnerability, not merely respond to it. (+9 more)

Related

• Legitimate political authority rests on an exchange of protection for obedience. (similarity 0.91)
• War reverses the protection-obedience relation so subjects protect the sovereign. (similarity 0.84)
• War’s protection reversal exposes domination as the hidden core of sovereignty. (similarity 0.82)
• Protective powers actively maintain their subjects’ vulnerability, not merely respond to it. (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• System trust produces a compulsion to trust a system one cannot correct #corroborates (0.85)
• Legitimate political authority rests on an exchange of protection for obedience. #complicates (0.80) — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 558
• Authority builds from accumulated past compliance without requiring ongoing justification #expands (0.80)
• Trust rests on structural system guarantees that relieve individuals of risk assessment #corroborates (0.78)
• Protective powers actively maintain their subjects’ vulnerability, not merely respond to it. #expands (0.60)
• War reverses the protection-obedience relation so subjects protect the sovereign. #qualifies (0.55) — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 559
• Politicians gain power by promising protection against imagined threats #complicates (0.55) — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 329