> All of a sudden the government has an incentive to enforce more control over its citizens and society as a whole. It's not sudden at all. The Reichstag fire

> All of a sudden the government has an incentive to enforce more control over its citizens and society as a whole. It's not sudden at all. The Reichstag fire [0] and the Reichstag Fire Decree [1], which is probably reasonably described as a pivotal part of the rise of Nazi Germany, demonstrate exactly the incentive you describe. At least as far back as 304 AD [2] - and probably further - people in power have noticed that they can exploit this incentive structure with a "false flag" attack. * 0 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reichstag_fire https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reichstag_fire * 1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reichstag_Fire_Decree https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reichstag_Fire_Decree * 2 https://books.google.co.za/books?id=RDqyIcSLJ0AC&pg=PA164&lpg=PA164&redir_esc=y https://books.google.co.za/books?id=RDqyIcSLJ0AC&pg=PA164&lp...