The inherent conundrum that individualistic theories have to deal with
The inherent conundrum that individualistic theories have to deal with
Nevertheless, if seen from an informational point of view, this assumption, the dichotomy between the private and the public self, is basically false, it does not exist. The state, because it is the information platform that individualised humans and made it possible for them to live meaningful lives, has access to all information, it is omnipresent (see §07.00.03, and also §16.00.02). For the state, there is no private and public sphere. It is just information processing as usual. In other words, the state knows everything anyway. It cannot avoid doing so as it is an indispensable, ever-present party to any information creation and processing that takes place by any one of its citizens on its (information) platform. This is the basic problem, the inherent conundrum for any individualistic theory, on the information platform that is the state. What is to be done with the fact that the state knows everything anyway? Of course, so formulated, the question is stylistic: the state is not a person, only an informational infrastructure. It enables knowing but it does not know itself, it has no purpose (let alone consciousness); effectively, it is the Being that runs the state, meaning its government (specifically ‘its’ individuals) that can know everything anyway, through its control of the information platform that is the state. Basically, because the state is omnipresent, its government can be (relatively) omnipotent.
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