Yes, Usian #FifthEstate has unprecedented power as compared to police as experienced in other places and times.

Absent a concerted check on systems of power, a massive disruption of and dismantling of all the five estates of #RentierSociety, the fifth estate will only further concentrate and intensify its unrivaled capacity for violence.

Generations of #tensegrity ratchet will not be unwound easily. Nonetheless a system that harnesses gravity to hold itself aloft offers no promise of collapse.

Which is to say, when we say to the world, "But have you seen our police‽" Yes, they have.

They've also seen our devotional politics, our #KayfabePanto. Far more than they would care to.

They've likewise seen our oligarchs, common enough, and far more strikingly, our #perquisitive #classposture.

For how—with our empire of consensus media—could they not?

It is the five estates, not merely the #FifthEstate, that together uphold #tensegrity

Police are but one beam of a whole to be dismantled.