The Natural History Of The State

Thousands of years before the birth of Christ there were governments, kings and states.  Where did government come from? Let’s go back to a time when nomadic tribes wondered the cradle of civilization.  Certain tribes would rape, slaughter and steal the wealth of other tribes. As time progressed some settled in permanent dwellings with more advanced civilizations through agriculture and farming.  The nomadic tribes who pillaged did not vanish. They would wipe out entire villages.

Eventually these marauders realized they could obtain more wealth not by killing, but by taking as much as they could leaving the victims alive with just enough to survive off of.  This was done under the guise of protection from others like himself who would use aggressive force upon the people. The one who raped slaughtered and stole would claim to do so for the good of the people he was raping, slaughtering and stealing from.

“I can keep you safe from all the barbarian hordes! I will keep the rape, murder and theft at bay if you just let me rape and steal. If you have a problem with that you can be slaughtered so that there is no opposition it is simply the will of the people that I do this to them. We will be civilized!”  This is similar to how a protection racket works. The state is nothing more than the winning criminal element.  It did not stop there.

As people advanced and prospered they questioned their oppressor, so the oppressor claimed to be a god.  Pharaoh would sit on his throne, and demand more than the women, wealth and lives of his subjects. He would now demand the people worship him.  After all, how can you question the will of a god?

For you Christians out there we see in scripture the Israelites, a people calling out for a King to be like the other nations.  They believed one man could fix the problems of all people. They rejected their system of judges that was a system where people lived in a more free nature than that of under a king.  They rejected the dispute resolution they had under the Judges to embrace the savage dominance of a king like the rest of the nations.

As time progressed we began to see that Pharaohs bled like any other man and that they were not in fact a god, but a frail man like every other man.  This led to a new idea.  I am not God, but God wants me to rule here in his place. I have the church to support me on this.  Then the Pope would give the King a thumbs up and we had the divine rights of kings.  This is a mindset and belief still held by many Christians in the United States today.  For those who are not gullible enough to swallow the idea that God appointed Hitler, Bush and Obama in a democracy we claim “the will of the people.” Even though the choice is between two ruling classes that in reality are two sides of the same coin.

Pharaohs erected statues in their greatness. Rome erected statues in honor of the gods that honored their dominance.  In the U.S. we erect our Washington monuments and memorials of founding fathers and statesmen.  We look at our constitution as divine and pure. We seek to honor the state with a sense of nationalism that would rival devotion to any religion.  Muslim Jihad is the closest thing I can see to this devotion to states that would drive a man or woman to die for the belief in the ruling class to preserve the power of a state.  In return your corpse receives a ribbon or metal as you are buried in a place of honor by the state you have killed for.  You will be remembered just as the hieroglyphs of Egypt on a wall in Washington.  You have died for your earthly gods and the defeated shall pass into obscurity as the state lives on.

“Flags are bits of colored cloth which governments use first to shrink-wrap people’s brains and then later as a burial shroud for the dead.” ~ Arundhati Roy

We shall never be civilized as long as we are ruled in such a manner. A civilized society is not one that solves problems with brute force and the violence of a gun. It is time we put away this archaic concept of a state and went forward without the violence and aggression of the barbarians. It is time we rose above murder as the solution for dealing with those we disagree with and taking what we want from others.

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