Control Points

"The government's been in bed with the entire telecommunications industry since the forties. They've infected everything. They get into your bank statements, computer files, email, listen to your phone calls. Every wire, every airwave. The more technology used, the easier it is for them to keep tabs of you."
--Brill (Enemy of the State)

A tenet of social control and institution theory involves reducing the number of points or entities to monitor and adjust. This often leads to increased size and concentration of control points.

Thus, one roadblock such as Checkpoint Charlie that all traffic passes through for inspection. One spokesperson to represent a negotiating group. Boycott or seek sanctions against a few large producers rather than many small buyers.

Socialism, particularly fascism, is built on the few large control point notion. How better to influence production than through state endorsed verticals comprised of a few large producers? These verticals are the control points, the transmission mechanisms of state policy.

Contrary to popular belief, large corporations are not inevitable outcomes of capitalism. Under competitive conditions, size threatens adaptation as bureaucratic burdens hamper change. The natural state of affairs is one of fragmentation and diversity. The variation within, as observed by Darwin, provides the basis for adaptation.

Size and concentration are friends of the State. They strengthen capacity for control.