What Is the State?

I feel like this emphasis on the state as the thing that is driving the spirit of society seems just really overblown. The culture is so much bigger than who the government is. There's no other voices that can easily be heard by us and that are feeding into our intellectual climate that are not the state. Ahem, actually, actually, their percapita g d p is now higher than the united states. Is it just all that look good for them, quickly becoming a consumer society? But, you know, i think this short term stuff, and then there's star track. What are things going to look like in a hundred thousand years? And when we're dealing with cling