Yes it is a Problem...

...But for the same same reason that having only one group traditionally associated with being in police work in particular, as well as in law enforcement in general, is a problem. The same reason having only traditionally repetitive people in public service is a problem. And likely so on through other professions, though perhaps not quite so glaringly critical.

And at its base the problem is this: doing something difficult, and/or unsavory, over time, can tend to jaundice anyone's views of the particulars that make up the interactive elements of that task (rightly or wrongly), as well as its purpose. And the thing is, the mutual exclusion that is going on here between the exclusively populated task group, and those not in that group, works to also make the latter likely jaundiced towards the former. And after observing this sort of thing for a while now I feel safe in saying that it is not a situation that a society can long tolerate.


This gets worse, though, because this kind of separation is a part of the foundation of Capitalism. And because Capitalism is also the economics of scarcity, the whole competition of who pays, and who benefits, gets ever more complicated still because the already described tendency towards mutual group discordance serves only to make crumbling debate about what should be priorities, or how we should distribute the "payment/benefit" mix, ever the more difficult; because lines get drawn ever more starkly about shifting combinations of more "us against them" kinds of thinking.

This is another part of why we are fracturing along so many diverse fronts. Another aspect of why, in not structurally being set up to engage each other on a regular, broadly integrated fashion, day to day (seeing how the reality is from a broader range of task perspectives, on a constantly rotating basis), as well as from the perspective of those in receipt of the task's purpose; of how being in that separation exacerbates that fracturing.

Electrified environments of vastly expanded instrumentality, and channels of information flow, require involvement in depth. Our sensibilities now demand we have involvement in depth so that we can better achieve a true sense of meaning, and that we matter. The structure of Capitalism is the antithesis of these needs and demands. And we are suffering in just about every way you can think of because we refuse to recognize the fundamental requirement to rethink, and then replace, what we have as socio economic operating system.

Sometimes it really does come down to change or die.

AT YOUR SERVICE

The Warrior Caste

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America increasingly relies on a small group of multigenerational military families to fight its wars. That’s a problem.