Suicide troops causes state instability.

SuicideTroops Causes State Instability
Andre Willers
3 Mar 2011

"Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori"
"The Center cannot hold"

Synopsis :
The memes setting up suicidal human troops spill over into the general populace. They do not have the corresponding control memes . The State loses it's main control (Fear of Death) and general instability results .

Discussion :

Historical :
Surviving societies have been extremely careful of using suicide troops , not because they are not very effective , but because the society loses all control over the conduct of the members.

What are you going to do to somebody who does not fear death or pain ?

They used Honour , Bushido , Heaven , Reincarnation , Jade Emperor , etc .

This works in carefully prepared troops .
Examples are Kamikaze , Nazi equivalents (see Me368B) , etc

Mind-control systems like Roman-Catholic Church circa 1300AD or Communists never used them .
The results always turned in their hand .

In religious terms , the individuals decide on their own destiny , seen as an act of pride .

They are then uncontrollable by the State .

Suicide bombers:
The meme escaped from a very carefully selected cadre into the general populace .
Disdain for death became fashionable in a deep sense .
Hence the populist uprisings in the Arab world at the moment . Note that this is different in a fundamental sense from the uprisings in Eastern-Europe late 1980's , which were sourced from material discontent .
These are from both religious and material source.

Glorifying suicide-bombers have come around and bit them .

A modest prediction :
The degree of future instability is directly related to the degree in which direct or indirect promulgation of suicide-bombers or troops occurred .

This means Saudi-Arabia , Pakistan , Israel (Masada) , etc

The history is fascinating .
1The Roman Republic destabilized because of too many citizen soldiers . The Empire only stabilized after professional armies arrived .
2.Meso-America .Always teetered on the knife-edge because of death worship , until Christianity arrived . Even without the plagues , the end result would have been the same .
3.Protestantism , the Roman Catholic's kamikaze .without bushido .

4 States:.
Christianity , Islam , Roman , Buddhism , Hinduism , Shintuism all tried the idea of specialist Suicide-Corps , and all came to sticky end . They usually had to be put down after rebelling (ie putting their own judgement above that of the State , the very thing they were first formed for . But the control systems fail or get perverted)
Like with poison gas or bio-warfare , your own casualties can easily exceed that of your enemy .
Oops!

Chaperones .
The resultant states can easily decivilize and depopulate without a strong neighbouring state lending aid and succour .

Germany and Japan circa 1945 or USSR circa 1992 spring to mind .

Contrast with the Western Roman Empire circa 400 AD , Middle-East circa 1400 AD China circa Ming was a real tragedy . They managed to get rid of the Mongols , but the effort exhausted them . There was no chaperone .

Present :
The Arab states will destabilize , and there is a real danger that they decivilize in a welter of anarchism . The West , Russia , China and India are strong enough to act as chaperones .

"Tojours , mes infants!"

Andre