Crime and the Notion of Crime-State

   

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Parasite-tree (more details at the end of the text)

In the previous post, “Perception of the Future – A Risky Yet Probable Bet,” I used the term “state-crime.”

Legally, here in Brazil, the term is relevant to a crime somewhere between a “permanent crime” and an “instantaneous crime with permanent effects,” that is, the creation or maintenance of an illicit situation or an illicit state, such as money laundering, or its movement, or even the ownership of illicit assets generating a state of concealment/disguise.

In that post I made the following assertion:

“The state-crime emerging as a nation without a homeland, like the Jews until Israel was born.”

I coined the term with an extended meaning: a permanent legal state that determines not only defiance of the laws of a nation, but also forms the culture that determines the common behavior of a group of people who see in the breaking of traditional values a means of economic growth.

What is a nation made of?

Basically, of laws that gather people with a common culture similar to that of the majority.

As crime grows, the number of people increases, and when it becomes nationalized and internationalized, one can already think that the portion of the population participating in the process, directly or indirectly, is also something numerically very relevant.

What happens when their number becomes close to, or even greater than, the number of people who are guided by the rules of the System?

The System is subverted under the cloak of discretion of laws that gradually become more flexible and make the countermeasures of the legal State unfeasible. Over time, the new State reflects the predominant thinking, reversing the status quo of the System.

This strongly recalls the example of the parasite-tree that symbolizes this publication.

It is exactly as if there were one country inside another.

Crime was fed with the most generous capital possible through the commercialization of chemical agents that sustain the psychological need of the individual, yet cause chemical and emotional dependence.

The individual continues consuming because he likes it and even sees it as advantageous for dealing with high-pressure situations, as in the case of extremely wealthy people who maintain their consumption, as is publicly known.

If there is consumption of something illicit from the top to the bottom, and as this consumption grows, “democratically” we have a state-crime, which feeds a nation within another, where the former disagrees with the criminal concept imposed by the latter regarding the legality of its needs.

All drug users belong to this nation without a geographical homeland, defining a state-crime as a nation destined never to have its own homeland, but to alter and subvert its own homeland over time, as it gains political and economic relevance.

That is why I chose a parasite-tree as the symbol of this post. More details about it at the end of the text.

Added to the population of the “state-crime” are other agents who perpetuate illicit activities, such as fraudulent operations of any kind, and all sorts of illegalities.

So, reader, what is the rate of the entire population engaged in the “state-crime”?

If the number of citizens of the state-crime reaches something close to 40%, we will already have a gradual socio-political transformation, like what has been happening.

And if that number exceeds 50%, it merely accelerates this transformation.

In this state of affairs, there is no point in:

* Making São Paulo’s “Crackland” disappear.

  It was merely a severe political and social discomfort that persists in fragmented form.

* Fighting a divergent manifestation by dispersing it.

  The fragmentation of the moment does not weaken the unity.

* Putting the federal police to arrest people, while the cases end up going nowhere.

If high society consumes, the law serves only for the society without the financial backing to “stand up to” the system.

Meanwhile, organized crime grows more and more with the thunderous profit from drugs, which subsidize other illicit activities, until the current System succumbs.

If drugs were legalized, it would not change the current situation overnight, because the criminal economic structure is diversified, but at least it would be one less economic vein. Back in the past, it would have made a great difference. Today, not so much.

However, bringing into the System an activity that belonged to the state-crime would help enable a more adequate treatment than merely dispersing the problem instead of treating it.

As the state-crime internationalizes, it places each country of origin as a Member State of this great global nation, alien to the politically recognized nations.

What planetary future can survive this?

Honestly, I am exhausted from hearing political plans and actions that attack only the effect and not the cause.

The following is the detailing of the parasite-tree that illustrates our theme perfectly.

The red arrows point to the original tree suffocated by the other.

Below is a detailed description of the parasitic tree that perfectly illustrates our theme.

The red arrows point to the original tree being suffocated by the other.

Example of a parasite beginning to take over the host tree.

The parasitic tree was a complete success, growing into a leafy tree.

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