The us. State never insists on this more total monopoly violence, even while intensifying and institutionalizing evermore mass scale forms of state violence. This is in part explained by the fact that this sometimes eliminationist, sometimes dominating, but always expansionist american empire had a sort of limitless frontier. Or maybe, as gregrandon reminds us, not limitless, because we may just be finding those limits to day We may be like hitting that point where the universe starts to contract and go back to or original bag big bang in some ways.