“The irony is that the infrastructure authoritarian states build to make their rule unassailable may be what makes their leaders most visible to the people trying to kill them,” Healy said. “Do you trust who is watching?”

Fascism’s need for absolute control and erasure of privacy are what makes collapse an inevitable outcome of the ideology for another way to describe a system with perfect top down awareness is a system with a single failure point.

In the wake of the Iran War how will the argument for Iranians to install more surveillance cameras and double down on even more surveillance culture in the interests of safety be received internally? It is no longer an arguably rational strategy to endlessly surveil in the interests of stability and safety. After all this is as sure proof and demonstration as any that endless surveillance creates an existential instability all by itself.