I think of social infrastructure like the prison system (including the private prison system) as like a gigantic potential well. As we build out more and more

I think of social infrastructure like the prison system (including the private prison system) as like a gigantic potential well. As we build out more and more of the tools of a totalitarian fascist state embarking on a genocidal project -- we become more and more likely to fall into that potential well and actually become exactly such a state.