Without charisma, elites resort to manufactured scarcity and physical threat

Evidence

If, however, one lacks the charisma to do this, there can be a temptation to play more directly and negatively on fear: to place the People’s Liberation Army behind the Mao suit, to darken the Mercedes’ windows and the flunkeys’ glasses, or more decisively, and as Anthony Pagden (in this volume) describes the Spanish having done in Naples, to exacerbate the uncertainties in the environment; to cut off the well or irrigation water, for instance, to make housing or employment or some other such good dependent upon loyalty, or at the limit simply to present a physical threat. — Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking Cooperative…, 1590

Categorization

• XREF: Manufactured scarcity as control — echoes the reader’s Hardin frame where observable constraints (dependency) substitute for trust. — connects to: Scarcity makes human existence itself a threat to others and the root of violence — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 472