Are You Trusting Strangers?

The only societies which can exist over the long term without some kind of political division of powers might be to hunt together a society. As populations increase, you do tend to need to come up with ways of getting people to join states with some degree of hierarchy in them. For Hobbes, the king, the monarch is a stand-in for that hive mind. The example of what is Hobbes' version of a world without the state that I like to give students is Mad Max Fury Road.