To be confined in The State is the antithesis of freedom.
The earliest forms of states arose about 5,500 years ago. For many millennia before that, humans lived in stateless societies.
Human beings have now accepted the inevitability of the State. But is The State something that should not have been? Could it have arisen from the very beginning as a way for a certain class of people to rule over others?
Are we not in a place now where we can evolve beyond the need for a State entity that governs human affairs?
What Is The State?
Our words have deep meanings and significance, and there is nothing that is accidental in the roots of our words. Therefore, it is fruitful to inquire into why we call our Government The State.
Why was this applied to represent that idea and that reality in our world?
What does the nature and essence of that word tell us about what our governments really are?
This is the general definition of “state”.
State1. A condition or mode of being, as with regard to circumstances.2. A condition of being in a stage or form, as of structure, growth, or development.
The word state ultimately derive from the Latin word status, meaning "condition, circumstances". Latin “status” derives from stare, "to stand," or remain or be permanent, thus providing the sacred or magical connotation of the political entity.”- Wikipedia
“The state is a form of human association distinguished from other social groups by its purpose, the establishment of order and security;its methods, the laws and their enforcement;its territory, the area of jurisdiction or geographic boundaries; and finally by its sovereignty. The state consists, most broadly, of the agreement of the individuals on the means whereby disputes are settled in the form of laws.”- Encyclopedia Britannica
The State is not something that humanity directly created.
It is that entity that is born out of the existence of structures of power that exist above and beyond individual humans and even governmental organizations.
It has its existence in the fact that any locus of power and control naturally seeks to preserve and extend its influence. Like any organism, it seeks to expand and grow while consuming other forms of energy.
“The State” - denotes a fixed point of being. Everything in life must be alive and changing. The State is fundamentally wrong because it is violent, it is coercive, it is against nature.
The Status Quo
The State is the status quo
That is all The State is. It exists to keep the status quo, to keep the ruling class in power.To keep things in a fixed state.
It is a structure. It serves to organize and shape things. To take something amorphous and fix it into place.
It is The STATE - for it is fixed in place artificially, as nothing in nature can ever be truly static. Even stillness is motion from a different point of view.
It exists to preserve the prevailing hegemony.It is an artificial manmade structure that is built upon the foundation of violence, coercive manipulation, and control.
In the state of nature, things are always evolving and changing. But within a government, the regime is a constant presence that is never allowed to fundamentally change.
THE State
It is THE State - for there can be only one.
The State violently destroys anything that arises to challenge its hegemony and authority.There cannot be two different States sharing the same space. No, there can only be one.
Max Weber defined The State as the entity that “claims the monopoly of the legitimate use of physical force within a given territory."
Coexistence is impossible, for The State is inherently totalitarian. It cannot allow the existence of other States, for that is its antithesis.
It also cannot allow for truly free individuals because that would negate its own power and legitimacy. The State cannot allow individuals to choose to opt out and live within it yet outside of it.
If you live within its imaginary borders, it claims to own and rule you. The various countries of our world today and their various governments are really only different organs of the same entity - The State.
Wherever you go on this Earth, one government or another claims jurisdiction over that space and land. And one government is different than another in degree, not in its fundamental nature.
Additionally, events such as the Covid-19 op show that local nations are not in any way independent but are ultimately subservient to a monolithic rule. There is a global one-world government that already exists. The UN, the WHO, and other global organization already exist as the apparatus of this global ruling entity.
The State Exists As Its Own Entity above and beyond The Government
The Government is the collection of individuals and positions that make it up. But the State is that entity that exists beyond even that. The Government is merely the administrative bureaucracy that controls the state apparatus at a given time. The State is an incorporeal idea that is served by a continuous succession of different governments.
The President or Prime Minister is not the leader of the State. The State has no leader, for it is an inhuman blob. It is its own entity that wishes to preserve itself and continue to absorb other beings and institutions to perpetuate its existence. The President is perfectly selected to be the figurehead while doing nothing but obeying orders of the nameless, faceless ghost in the machine.
I wonder… does the president of the United States know his own irrelevance?
Does he intuit the inmost nature of the entity that puppets him and all other government apparatchiks?
Legislative, executive, judicial, police, military, intelligence agencies, etc. All these are different branches and limbs of the singular entity that is the State.
Each one serves its function, not to serve the people but to make the people serve the ruling class, who themselves serve The State itself.
The State uses its governmental structure to sink its tendrils into every nook and cranny of society. Money, law, banking, media, education, medicine, science, religion, business. Once created, there is no aspect of the individual’s existence that The State does not feel the absolute need to dominate and control.
The Government is the bureaucrats that serve as the functionaries of The State. They serve it, but they aren’t it. The State is its own third entity beyond the government and the governed.
It is an idea, an egregore, a psychic entity that takes on a life of its own through the collective belief and energy projected towards it by hundreds of millions of individuals over decades and centuries.
The people that serve the state come and go, yet The State is lasting and continues as long as its subjects continue to believe in it and therefore serve it.
The State is the invisible entity that possesses the minds of the populace to carry out its own ends
The State Serves & Is Served By The Least Among Us
It was realized long ago that government and the entity of The State is the most effective way to enslave humanity. That you could make people believe that they were free while keeping them in a free-range prison.
That the invisible State entity at the heart of civilization would allow the very few to control the very many.
The royal class and priest class of old naturally became the administrators and managers of the State entity. The Government is always seized upon by the most sociopathic, psychopathic, immoral, and power-greedy people.
It provides the perfect vehicle for them to rise to power, the ideal organization that allows them to accrue power under the guise of the public good.
They become the minions and servants of the Machine, thinking through it, they can achieve their own ends. But the State entity swallows them up.
Lured in by the promise of power, wealth, fame, and admiration, they sell their soul.
But just as they parasitically feed off of the populace, the Statist Machine feeds off of them and then discards them.
These people use the State and are, in turn, used by it.
The Machine
The State is The Machine - that inhuman entity that must continue its operation as long as it exists to operate.
We can take the famous Marshall McLuhan quote about machines but replace “Machine” with “State”:
“Man becomes, as it were, the sex organs of the State’s world, as the bee of the plant world, enabling it to fecundate and to evolve ever new forms. The State’s world reciprocates man's love by expediting his wishes and desires, namely, in providing him with wealth.”
You can replace The Machine with The State - for the State IS a Machine
It is an inhuman, amoral entity.
And this Machine now threatens to completely dominate humanity as more and more people allow themselves to be subsumed by it.
The State exists to perpetuate itself. All of its actions and activities Is the machine creating the conditions for its own expansion. It is a perpetual motion machine. It will continue forever, endlessly spinning in place.
It doesn’t exist to bring individuals to freedom as it claims - that is the exact opposite of its function. Its very existence is predicated upon the restriction and subversion of freedom.
It is not of the nature of The State to limit itself in any way. And it requires its subjects to limit themselves so as to allow for its ever-expanding growth.
It is a living entity that needs to feed on energy in order to survive. And it cannot stay still, for this is akin to dying. It must grow.
“It’s alive!”
Violence & Control: The Lifeblood of The State
The State’s function is to bring order to chaos. To take infinite possibility and confine it within the four walls of a structure with rules and hierarchies.
It is not a holistic, natural, creative Order that arises spontaneously from the individual level. It is the order of authority, of control, of violence.
Anarchy is “chaos”, the chaos of freedom. But the State’s order is externally imposed, is top-down violent control.
Anarchy is creative. Government is restrictive and destructive.
Everything other than The State exists in a state of anarchy. Nature itself exists in a state of anarchy that contains within it both chaos and order.
Something as infinitely vast and unlimited as nature and existence itself needs no external apparatus to keep it in harmony. It operates only on certain simple foundational Laws that are intrinsic to its very nature.
It allows localized chaos to spontaneously generate a greater order.
Human beings, as extensions and the flowering of nature, need no limited man-made entity to create order and harmony.
On the contrary, anything manmade, existing due to illegitimate authority, and imposed through coercive force can only ever result in immorality and bondage.
You are in an anarchistic relationship with your friends, your romantic partners, your business partners, and everyone else. This freedom and individual sovereignty breed creativity, innovation, collaboration, and an emergent societal harmony - no matter how large or complex the system is.
The State is Maintained Only Through Violent Force
“The State is that organization in society which attempts to maintain a monopoly of the use of force and violence in a given territorial area; in particular, it is the only organization in society that obtains its revenue not by voluntary contribution or payment for services rendered but by coercion.”
- Murray N. Rothbard, Anatomy of the State
For things to be kept in a “state”, any particular state at all, they cannot be allowed to be free to move and evolve. There must be outside force applied from all sides to keep that which seeks to evolve and shift into a fixed place.
Without violent force, the State would immediately cease to exist.
Without taxes, state police, propaganda, and indoctrination, and without war, it would dissolve.
Government is only kept in a state of perpetual permanence through daily violence and theft. Violence is the lifeblood of government. As it is said: “War is the health of the State”.
That State, because it is unnatural and illegitimate, must continually work hard to keep itself in place and preserve the status quo.
Without violently caging those who would seek to live outside of its jurisdiction or refuse to have the fruits of their labor extorted from them, then the State would never be able to perpetuate itself.
Everything government is, has, or does is accomplished through violence, theft, and coercion.
It is an illegitimate mafia that exists only because it has been able to brainwash its victims to believe that it has legitimate authority and that it actually serves them.
Statism: Assimilation into the Machine
"L'État, c'est moi"
"I am the State"
- attributed to Louis XIV
You are born upon the soil of a particular government - and you are a vassal of that state.
You can’t travel across imaginary borders to another State without approval. By being born into this particular piece of land, you are then considered to have a lawful duty to pay taxes, obtain a birth (livestock) certificate
You are born into The State, and from the State comes your identity
You are born into The State, and it molds and shapes you into a devoted supporter of the Status Quo. You become The State, you are assimilated into the Borg. You believe that you have a duty to obey, an obligation to participate, and a privilege to vote. You whole-heartedly identify with the entity of your own enslavement, and you dutifully serve your master.
This is The State’s ultimate goal - to so totally dominate you that you exist in a state of complete thrall. The State becomes your default all-pervasive reality. The sea within which you swim. You become so immersed in it that you cannot recognize it. Just as the fish does not know what water is.
Being a Statist, one who believes in the reality and legitimacy of the State, is the default belief system of all humans today that are not born into indigenous societies. And to not be a Statist is so unusual that to say that you are so is to be met with incredulity and even open hostility.
The Inevitability of The State
The nefariousness of The State is in its perceived inevitability.
Children born into a cult cannot conceive of life outside of that cult. And even if they leave their particular brand of cult, they will join another cult while never escaping The cult of belief and obedience itself.
The State is all-pervasive, infiltrating our minds even before we have had a chance to learn to think, to question, to explore.
For most human beings at this time in our world, the question is not “Do we need government?” but “What type and how much government do we need?”
Most people take it as an a priori fundamental certainty that we absolutely must have a State. And therefore, they are lost before they take even the first step.
The State is not inevitable. On the contrary, the State has no existence other than in the mind of the Statist. It is not a real thing that exists outside of its members’ belief in it.
Changing to a Stateless State
To be in a State, any particular state at all is the antithesis of freedom. It is to be forced, coerced, manipulated, and violently suppressed.
It is individual liberty to be sacrificed upon the altar of “the greater good,” - which is always a proxy for The State and those who wield it.
Anarchy is not a state, it is statelessness.
There are no archons, no rulers, to enforce and perpetuate any particular state.
It is true freedom because you are not coercively forced into anything but rather allowed to choose your own state of being - and you likewise give others the same respect and dignity to choose their own conditions for life.
It allows each individual to be in their own conditions, to be their own Sovereign.
The State is breaking down and collapsing. It is crumbling from within as its subjects lose faith in it and remove their energy and attention. That which exists only in and through violence sooner or later faces a time when violence no longer works to keep the masses in line. It is rapidly losing its thin veneer of legitimacy and competency in the eyes of the populace. And in every other aspect of our society, voluntary subscription models and decentralization have already proliferated.
The State, as a violent, coercive, dominating, and confining entity, will exist until humanity evolves and awakens to greater consciousness. Until the belief in and obedience to authority disappears.
The State is in a condition of high entropy - it is approaching a boiling point now where the old broken structure can easily shift into a new state.
Or perhaps, it may disappear entirely.
Notes & Sources
The State as a violent, coercive, dominating, and confining entity will exist until humanity evolves and awakens to greater consciousness. Until the belief in and obedience to authority disappears.
Until we discover inner empowerment and our hearts open to non-separation, love, and universal abundance.
The State egregore that humanity has birthed has been created out of the nature of our consciousness. Fear, control, domination, secrecy, lack….
We created The State, we engendered this circumstance, and only we can uncreate it and transform this inhumane monstrosity into something completely different. That future is one of individual liberty and empowerment without centralized anything
Someday in the not-too-distant future that State entity, that imprisoning status quo will vanish from the Earth. And then Human Beings will be truly free.
“Most of the human population has existed within a state system for millennia; however, for most of prehistory people lived in stateless societies. The earliest forms of states arose about 5,500 years ago”
Etymology
The word state and its cognates in some other European languages ultimately derive from the Latin word status, meaning "condition, circumstances". Latin status derives from stare, "to stand," or remain or be permanent, thus providing the sacred or magical connotation of the political entity.
The English noun state in the generic sense "condition, circumstances" predates the political sense. It was introduced to Middle English c. 1200 both from Old French and directly from Latin.
With the revival of the Roman law in 14th-century Europe, the term came to refer to the legal standing of persons (such as the various "estates of the realm" – noble, common, and clerical), and in particular the special status of the king. The highest estates, generally those with the most wealth and social rank, were those that held power. The word also had associations with Roman ideas (dating back to Cicero) about the "status rei publicae", the "condition of public matters". In time, the word lost its reference to particular social groups and became associated with the legal order of the entire society and the apparatus of its enforcement.11
The early 16th-century works of Machiavelli (especially The Prince) played a central role in popularizing the use of the word "state" in something similar to its modern sense.12 The contrasting of church and state still dates to the 16th century. The North American colonies were called "states" as early as the 1630s.citation needed The expression "L'État, c'est moi" ("I am the State") attributed to Louis XIV, although probably apocryphal, is recorded in the late 18th century.13
“While economic and political philosophers have contested the monopolistic tendency of states,27 Robert Nozick argues that the use of force naturally tends towards monopoly.”
A state can be distinguished from a government. The state is the organization while the government is the particular group of people, the administrative bureaucracy that controls the state apparatus at a given time.424344 That is, governments are the means through which state power is employed. States are served by a continuous succession of different governments.44 States are immaterial and nonphysical social objects, whereas governments are groups of people with certain coercive powers.45 Each successive government is composed of a specialized and privileged body of individuals, who monopolize political decision-making, and are separated by status and organization from the population as a whole.