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Three times in less than two years, someone has attempted to kill the President of the United States. The political class has responded in the typical fashion: the right identifies the left's rhetoric as incitement; the left condemns the regime's authoritarianism as provocation. Both are treating political violence as a message to be decoded rather than a symptom of a failing political system. The Technocratic framework requires that we treat the behavior of individuals as a response to material conditions. The question is not what the assassins believed. The question is what structural condition makes assassination attempts a recurring feature of a political system rather than an aberration.

The answer is legitimacy collapse. Its cause is not simply the wickedness of one administration or the radicalization of one faction. It is the prior and deeper failure of democratic epistemology: the assumption that the preferences of an epistemically unqualified population constitute a valid basis for governance.

Legitimacy is not popularity. It is not inherent to electoral victory. It is not even constitutionality in the narrow procedural sense. Legitimacy is the widely held belief across the population of governed subjects that the authority exercising power over them is doing so through a process that is competent, just, and oriented toward collective welfare. When that belief erodes, governance becomes coercion. The subjects of coercion, absent organized collective remedies, tend toward individual remedies. Political violence is the retail market for people who have concluded that no institutional channel remains. Data tends to prove this correct, with studies showing that the US electoral system provides more weight to votes of wealthier citizens. Combined with a lack of social mobility and cuts to education and welfare, this turns a class society into a caste system.

This is not a commentary for support or condemnation on any class struggle event whether violent or nonviolent. It is a structural observation. Democratic theorists have long acknowledged that legitimacy is the precondition for peaceful political contestation. What they have been unwilling to examine is whether democracy, as actually practiced, is capable of sustaining legitimacy or systematically degrades it. Democracy does not produce competent governance. It produces popular governance. These are not the same thing, and their divergence is the engine of legitimacy collapse.

The Technocratic position is an epistemic claim at its foundation: that governance is a domain of applied expertise, that the problems of a complex industrial society require specialized knowledge to solve, and that decisions made without that knowledge tend toward outcomes that are worse than random choices because they are systematically shaped by bias, ignorance, and the manipulation of motivated actors. Democracy does not address this problem. It institutionalizes it and celebrates it.

A population that cannot …

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Now, if you get a chance, pull up some behind the-scenes videos of how Lucas made the prequels. Here’s a few of them, watch:

Credit: Star Wars/YouTube.com

Whatever you think of the finished product, they’re hammering out new scenes and new locations, they were working out the details of the podracing scene and all the sound effects that would play throughout, they wanted to get the lighting of the palace just right - they weren’t preoccupied with recreating the original trilogy, they wanted to make something new. And that’s what they did. Was the dialogue kind of stilted, yes. Were many of the characters weak, yes. Was a lot of the acting not great, yes. Was the opening crawl about a trade war, you know, pretty boring, yes. But no one can accuse the prequels of trying to rip off the original trilogy - the choreography was different, the set pieces were different, and if you happen to be a fan of trade wars and political debates, you know, which is possible—and now tariffs are all the rage again—then, you know, there’s something here for you to watch that wasn't in the original films.

By contrast, take a look at the making of documentary for “The Force Awakens” - the entire time, they're fixated on what happened before, on nostalgia. Can’t go five seconds without talking about the older films, and how badly they want to emulate them. They come across like people who are desperate to figure out what made “Star Wars” appealing, so they can copy as much of the original films as possible. They never talk about any of their bold new ideas, because they don’t have any..

Watch:

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MAN 1: “What we would do is we would have sort of weekly check-in meetings with J.J., where we’d have a conference call, you know, video conference call. And we would go through the art.“

MAN 2: J.J. is very adamant that we kind of go back to the core aesthetics that made the original trilogy so great, and a lot of that was driven by Ralph and his sensibility. And for us, it’s kind of going back home in many ways, both for the visual look and the style of the movie…”

J.J. ABRAMS: “There was a feeling when I was a kid, when I saw Star Wars for the first time, that it was all practical and real. I mean, there were things like being outside the sand crawler and seeing those treads, those massive treads right there, it was a physical, tangible, real thing, you knew it when you saw the movie.”

PRODUCER: “So we wanted to go back and embrace the LOOK of those original films, which was all part of the feeling of how they were able to transport you into that universe…”

KATHLEEN KENNEDY: “There are things that are relevant, things you’re identifying with - certainly for all young kids when the movie came out, they either wanted to be Luke Skywalker, or they saw themselves as Han Solo. And I think that was a part of our challenge, was how are we gonna bring new characters into this series that had that same kind of power?…”

WRITER: “…

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