Why did states individualise humans in this way?
Why did states individualise humans in this way?
States have been information platforms for their citizens since the day any type of human group (be it an extended family or tribe or any other type of prehistoric organisation) was formed. Adherence to a group and the provision of a name for each individual within it have accompanied humans since their beginning (or, at least, since the day they acquired consciousness). Why did states individualise humans in this way? Why did humans individualise themselves at all? Why did humans not remain humans, yet another animal in Nature, forever? Why did humans choose to form ever larger groups, leaving the confines, and limitations, of families or small tribes, and creating the states in which we still live today? After all, dinosaurs ruled the planet before humans without having any use for states. As has been seen, this is due to human nature. Humans need to augment their information processing, to continue processing new information for as long as they live, and they need to do this individually, for their own sake, not cumulatively (i.e. for a hive). They do not process information for the sake of the group but for themselves. Hence individuality, and states as the sole natural mechanism to accomplish this process of individualisation, are natural to humans (natural rights theory or religion notwithstanding, because individuality of the human is necessary regardless of which (human rights or sin) applies, see also §08.01.01).
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