What the state has (and does not have) - the state has no purpose
What the state has (and does not have) - the state has no purpose
The state has no purpose. It serves no purpose, it is not aimed at anything specific, it has no preset objectives that it needs to achieve, no end towards which to strive. (Nor, for that matter, does it have any historically predetermined destiny that it will inevitably reach.) The state was not created, it emerged naturally, as soon as humans started using names. Because it was not intentionally created (it is therefore neither a Thing that is an artefact nor an organisation incorporated by humans), it has no specific purpose (see §05.00.10 and §05.00.11). As is the case for family (see §02.00.09, and §08.00.10), the state emerged naturally, as the necessary mechanism for using the names of humans in the way humans needed, without any specific planning or intentional thinking on the part of humans. In other words, states were not artificially created by humans for the purpose of individualisation (as is claimed, for example, under social contract theory for the purposes of security, property or justice), that is, humans did not have the conscious intention to create them as an alternative to other individualisation mechanisms that were available to them or as the result of a conscious choice to augment their information processing as an alternative to not doing so (as is the case for all other organisations, see §02.00.07). Rather they emerged naturally, as a necessary part of self-consciousness and human language. (After all, the definition of the state in this book has emerged only now after thousands of years, and as a result of the arrival of the digital world which has made such a perspective possible, thus further evidencing how natural states have appeared to humans so far in their history.)
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