Is there order in the state?

The increase of states’ information processing capacities once writing was invented and thereafter meant that the application of an organisational system for all this processing, a specific way for it to be carried out, became necessary. Clarifying first and foremost that this has nothing to do with a state’s government, this system was (for the vast majority of cases that we are familiar with, at least) hierarchical, because hierarchy is the basic human organisational principle, that is, it is natural to humans (see §06.00.10). From this point of view, there is order in the state—and, therefore, the state can be characterised as an ‘organisation’ (after all, states are Beings (organisations)). Nevertheless, the fact that some order exists in the state’s information processing says nothing about that order’s efficiency or sufficiency for any purpose. In other words, while hierarchy may come naturally to humans, it is not certain (and this is not examined in this book) that it is the best option (assuming, of course, that alternatives were possible). In the same vein, there is no pre-ordained, imagined order that states have striven to reach historically, through linear development (see §11.00.09 and §11.00.05).

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