The animal State

Our natural social state is as tribes. United by either blood or fucking. Similar to what we see in the so called animal kingdom, a kingdom we conveniently place ourselves outside of. The problem with nation States, at least as they evolved in Europe, is that they tried to subdue the tribal instinct through amalgamation and uniformity, as a result they ended up creating a single national tribe. If you look at education as a basic right, and it is, you find Europe has made the biggest strides in this area. But, this is not out of some benevolent government instinct to educate and elevate the masses, the real purpose of universal education is to allow government administrators to exert more effective control over the people.

If citizens of a nation State do not read from the same history book, or hold as sacred different truths or different versions of the truth, then that State would be impossible to govern. If there is no one accepted common language through which to communicate instructions to the various outposts of State, then national cohesion would never develop. It started there and success fuelled more ambitious projects undertaken by the real power behind thrones, the civil service.

Europe today is like a Lego set, every piece fits neatly into the other, the different shapes and colors give you an illusion of diversity, whereas in fact diversity is highly discouraged and uniformity is desirable. Countries in Europe are highly structured and peppered with rules and regulations that define everything. For some people that is seen as a good thing, after all who wouldn't want respite from thinking too much after a hard day's slog. Having a rule for everything makes things so much simpler, easier, it also makes human independence and individuality superfulous and redundant.

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