States need their citizens to continue living, communicating and creating on their platform
States need their citizens to continue living, communicating and creating on their platform
Consequently, states need their citizens to augment their information processing through them, through their information platform. They need their citizens to continue living, communicating and creating on their platform. If citizens cease to process in that manner information made available to them by their states, these states will cease to exist—they will become Things, whereby only the processing of information on them, but no longer by them, is possible (see §02.00.03, also keeping in mind that this does not mean that organisations have a need to survive: they do not, see §02.00.20; on state succession, see §15.00.00). By contrast, a state does well when its citizens do well in augmenting their information processing, because in this way the information processing possible on the platform that is their state is also augmented (opening up a virtuous circle, whereby this causes these same citizens to further augment their information processing and so on – assuming the usual, multidimensional mix and spread of their citizens’ information processing, i.e. excluding for example single-purpose monastic states).
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