What do states need?
What do states need?
What do states need? This question is not unwarranted. All Beings have needs (see §05.00.01 and §05.00.02); it is their nature that sets their needs, in an unbreakable bond. States, therefore, because they are Beings, must have needs too. But, what are they? States are organisations; however, unlike any other organisation they have no specific purpose. Therefore, no need can be derived from that point of view, that is, there is no need to serve a purpose (or any purpose) – as is the case in social contract theory. States do, however, share organisations’ other characteristics: they are human-centric and human-dependent, that is, without ‘their’ individuals (meaning their citizens), states perish (see §02.00.07 and §15.00.04). States, therefore, need their humans, meaning their citizens, the same as any other organisation. Their citizens, as humans, need to augment their information processing, this is their need of all needs. Consequently, states need their citizens to do exactly that, to augment their information processing. As with any other organisation, states need their citizens to augment their information processing through them, that is, to keep using their information platform (see §02.00.07). (Theoretically, as is the case for any organisation, it would be enough for states for their citizens simply to keep processing information through them, i.e. not to augment it. However, this is not what humans need. Humans need to augment their information processing, to ever increase it (the use of names, see §08.01.00, being an example in this regard), not simply to mechanically process (the same) information each day (see §05.01.03). Therefore, while in theory simple processing would suffice, in practice this cannot be, and thus augmentation of the information processing is necessary.) The difference between a state’s needs and any other organisation’s needs is that other organisations need ‘their’ humans to augment their information processing through them but are constrained by their specific purpose, whereas states, because they have no specific purpose themselves, need exactly the same thing (‘their’ humans to augment their information processing through them), but this processing can be for any purpose whatsoever (see also §02.00.09).
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