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Which is to say, what was once a monopoly on violence has grown and spread to become its own institutional base of power.

Proliferation of fifth estate consumes ever more resources, spreading to and disguising itself as other organs of society, invading, colonizing and degrading once robust institutions, even as such tumors starve other institutions of vitality.

Having escaped matrix of sovereign power, our fifth estate now operates as a check on the sovereign—alongside the other four estates.