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Depleted States

‘Depleted States' have been renouncing, gradually eliminating or selling most of the key instruments allowing the State to be the principal (or maybe the only) provider of security and stability. These States have been refusing to satisfy the citizens' quest for security and stability. ‘Depleted States' shows certain common trends:

Growing masses of citizens disengage from civil/political life breeding individualist concern;
Disaggregated institutions create complex global web of "government networks";
Economic power and capitals migrate to extraterritorial environments and to extra institutional decision-making clusters.

"Empty" Public Space

Politics has failed in converting private concerns into public issues and vice versa. ‘Public matters' were about public duties for the welfare and prosperity of the subjects/citizens; today, it is about private problems of public people. The new public space is dominated by:

Politics ‘sampling lessons' and prompting the idea that after all "pleasure is better guide than law and duty";
Ordinary people sharing their situation to get reassured with the multitude.

Therefore, the public space becomes ever emptier:

Public confessions of intimate or private secrets dominate the public space;
Politics moves out of institutions seeking refuge in an ‘extraterritorial' media-carnival becoming invisible to its duties and mandates.

‘Always-Ready' Society

As opposed to the regulated producer-driven society, the ‘Always-Ready' society is rule-free and consumers' desire-driven. Patterns of the ‘Always-Ready' society are:

Excess, not limitation, of available options and opportunities;
A universal benchmarking is driving the permanent fitness stress that continues without limits;
The fluidity of being endlessly fit to catch any next opportunity generates anxiety and may resolve into an ‘explosive society';
Politics is replaced by the self-legitimizing media-celebrity imposing ever new fitness standards.

Politics like shopping is no more the tool for the emancipation but for the redistribution of liberties.

Who is in Power?

Today's competition is not played between the biggest and the smallest, but between the fastest and the slowest. Global elites' power bypasses local engagements leaving the burden for law and order to central and local governments in the ‘depleted States'. In the era of the ‘depleted States' the most elusive people dominate because they are the only free of moving without becoming accountable.

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