The state does not have a pre-ordained order

There is no imagined level of order (or rationality) that states strive to attain in linear historical development or progress (nor is there historical inevitability that progress is made, for that matter, see also §09.00.07). The fact that states, regardless of whether tribes or empires or how far apart they were geographically or chronologically, ultimately resembled each other organisationally says nothing about the states themselves but rather about their citizens’ information processing capabilities at any given time. States may appear today to have ‘progressed’ towards increasingly centralised, and complex, information processing infrastructures, but this is only because their citizens have continuously |augmented their own information processing. Whatever order or organisation states have reached today or acquired over time only reflects their historical and cultural development as caused by chance and opportunity in the information processing of their citizens, not by any imagined rational end for states themselves—whatever that could be.

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