States are still in the ‘state of nature’
States are still in the ‘state of nature’
It is in what we can imagine as far-distant, prehistoric times in terms of human development that states are found today. States are thousands of years behind in their development compared to humans. In other words, humans may have developed within their states to the level of human civilisation we are living in today, but the states themselves have been left behind, in the time of the prehistoric soup from which human civilisation emerged.
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