The technical model of infallibility now governs the social, not the actual threat

Evidence

Now, it is the same model of programmatic infallibility, of maximum security and deterrence that today controls the spread of the social. There lies the true nuclear fallout: the meticulous operation of technology serves as a model for the meticulous operation of the social. Here as well, nothing will be left to chance, moreover this is the essence of socialization, which began centuries ago, but which has now entered its accelerated phase, toward a limit that one believed would be explosive (revolution), but which for the moment is translated by an inverse, implosive, irreversible process: the generalized deterrence of chance, of accident, of transversality, of finality, of contradiction, rupture, or complexity in a sociality illuminated by the norm, doomed to the descriptive transparency of mechanisms of information. — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 125

Categorization

• XREF: The implosion of the social into the norm connects to Jameson’s ‘postmodernism as the cultural logic of late capitalism’ and the end of the dialectic. — connects to: Modern dangers are produced by socially organized knowledge, not nature — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 262; Technical rationality makes irrational social control appear reasonable and rational — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the…, 124; Political threats endanger symbolic worlds, not physical safety (+2 more)
• DEEPTHINKING: Dense, paradigm-level claim: deterrence works not by propaganda but by modelling the social on technical infallibility — resistant to one-sentence summary.

Broader Connections

• Modern dangers are produced by socially organized knowledge, not nature #corroborates (0.82) — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 262
• Political threats endanger symbolic worlds, not physical safety #corroborates (0.80)
• Technical rationality makes irrational social control appear reasonable and rational #expands (0.78) — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 124
• Social securitization functions as prophylaxis protecting existing power from challenge #expands (0.75) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 483