What is the State?
Tides of History
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The Impossibility of State Life
People made choices about how they wanted to live. Those choices led them away from the life styles, settlement patterns and modes of sistence that might have induced state formation. Just because it's harder to excavate an ephemeral nomadic camp than a city, doesn't mean nobody was living in those nomadic camps. Human agency matters a great deal in choosing our government models for its literal or spiritual successor. Once a state has been established in a region, it provides a set of role models which can be used by future states. This is the great benefitState claims should not be treated as anything other than authority proven on some basis.
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