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Utopia - Razvan Flaviu Lungu
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VOLUME 1
Types of States – A Subjective History
Chapter: Unequals
O ne of the things that need to be understood from the start as a foundation for everything that is happening and that has happened is that we are not all the same! And implicitly we are not equal. No matter how often we’re hearing this. Regardless of the place, since childhood it’s being drilled into us that we are identical, that we are born and die in the same way regardless of country, color or religious culture. Does this mean that we are equal?? Is this enough? We subconsciously accept that some people are more intelligent than others, but we attribute this to the brain, as if it would be solely responsible
for this difference. We don’t have an explanation for child prodigies, who write great works at only 3 or 4 years old, although they usually have a rather ordinary genealogy. Obviously, with an insufficiently developed brain and yet different right from the start. Thus, we have such example right before our eyes. Logic tells us that it’s more than just the brain, something in the foundation which makes everything work inside us. That certain something that makes all the x
billion people be unique, or much more important, unequal! It’s not just the DNA confirming that there are no two identical beings, but that certain extra
something which touches the abstract within us. Kindness, wickedness, personality, intelligence. It’s what defines us as individuals. It’s important to understand this because these traits which exist in different amounts within us are the foundation for the dynamics of our entire history. Individuals who change systems . Or who create new ones. The purpose varies depending on who you are. People bringing the world forward by themselves or others who appropriate it. Today it matters less who you are. We have rules and norms in a state of law. How we got here, however, is another question.
Chapter: State – Beginnings
D emocracy in itself is a bad little joke, but a brilliant invention of the state creators
.And we will see why. What was the ingredient that was added to make this perfect system
. It’s obvious that countless models of control had been tried out before democracy. The sole primordial purpose behind the entire violent history of humanity has been gaining a certain control. War and peace since the first Homo sapiens. Changes in borders, preserving certain languages and the disappearance of others are only some of the secondary effects of this dynamic of our nature. A nature wich is unchanged regardless of so called evolution
. There are still wars trying to export languages, cultures and democracies as systems in other areas, which defend themselves, just like millions of years ago. Somebody attacks and somebody defends. The problem is that we’ve become extremely efficient in killing each other, which endangers the things around us more than our insignificant lives. Remember the Cuban Crisis. The cold war. Or,more recent issues. The masters of puppets are redirecting our attention to the third person – the problem of the East, the terrorist who has become everyone’s mutual enemy, the one undermining the values of democracy
in the West and Putin and his values in the East. Also NATO, anti-missile shields and airbases when you’re claiming that everything is nice and peaceful in this new system, our peak of civilization. But let"s not fool ourselves. In the same old, primordial idea of expanding the area of influence, of seeking resources in the name of the king, of the queen, in the name of democracy, in the name of Allah, we destroy.
Chapter: State Creators
S tates are different from many reasons. You may say the primordial reason was in the beginning the place and the time they formed. One earth couldnt mean one order
in form of one state. Geologicaly speaking this was not the case. Things have been moving beneath us, the tectonic plates did and are still doing their thing. What it means? Basically this has led to the differences we now see in different areas of the globe. Different people,different developments :economical, social and cultural. Yet all under the same universal franchise: the s tate
The state, this common denominator, mother and father to us all, regardless of the vicissitudes of weather, times or places dosn"t exist natural. What we see now,what we endure now is a result of a long process. Process made by people. State creators
During this long process a lot of improvments
have been made.This abstract system we accept today is the result of long and violent history where things were modify,changed,added,in correlation with the development of society. Therefore you cannot talk about a complicity and secrets from the beginning. Nore about invisibile routines. Even ord power
had other meanings. The more we go further back, the more primitive the system was. The man with the biggest club was also the one in command or… else. How long in time we go back is not very relevant as long we understand a simple principle. As long as many and bigger animals find us once very tasty the ideea of a state was not on the table. In other words is the enviroment
the context if you will who made possible the emerge of the first state creators.
Chapter: Power
P ower - a word with so many implications,a thing that’s deeply rooted not only in our genes, but in all living things. Its says now: power corupts-wich is true but let"s give for a second to this word another meaning- the motor. The motor who gaved us at some point in history a porpuse!. We needed power to gain control over the enviroment.And for that you need structures, you need order, you need tools and laws. You need to change the meaning of power.No longer an lonely individ could do that. You need a group
During time we managed to develop a system based on the individual in an increasingly more abstract concept based on the group. Power becomes an abstract notion held by the group. The notions of remuneration, payment, currency as a common exchange very unit are direct consequences of the first forms of states. Power doesn’t just need to be owned, it needed to be preserved over time and passed on to the same elite group.Extention-was another derivation of this new concept of power and organization. The loyal, paid, army, the promises of welfare with the conquest of new territories, were the carrots
which led to the emergence and expansion of the new empires, to the emergence of new cultures, new languages and the disappearance of others. What we see today is simply a result of this dynamic. Power was the motor and motivation to go further,to want more. Incipient phases in history were empires expansions led to the fundations we see today. A split in the world with discrepancies and antagonisms in everything.Yet power without structures and tools doesnt mean much.And speaking of tools let
s look at the one who make the first big change in the world
Chapter: the Vote
V ote is something that came later in the system. Add to the soup in a certain moment and in a certain region. As we will see the importance of natural evolution in certain areas of the globe with direct implication in gene behaviour. Untill the vote previous systems no matter the color have been characterized by totalitarianism and brute force. More or less. To take,own and rule was the recipe of the time. Often to the detriment of the androgen population. Take without giving anything in return shows a precar system ment to fail. Some powers
,empires make it longer
then others by imposing laws and benefits for the locals in the conquered territories. Yet conflicts were inevitable. And where are conflicts and wars a system is allways in danger. This was and is the main reason for a change. What we call improvement and evolution allways had as background a generall unhappines,a general discontent between population and the power system.Somehow,somewhere the state creators realized that violence leeds to more violence and that the raw force and ignorance can only led to the same end- T he lost of power .Therefore a need of a new development, of a new item was imposing. New ideas,of a new kind of society where ordinary people can choose . And such ideas could only come from a place that at that time was one of the most advanced in the world.
Greece and vote
The Vote! this wondrous instrument meant to give people the illusion that they have the power to decide. The key-element on democracy’s resume, foundation for the charter of human rights, pretext for the export of culture and the invasion of other countries. And so much more. Finding this simple key radically changed the world and brought it to its current state. Equally divided, but theoretically stable.
The vote is the tool
added to the recipe by the elements of power who realized that authoritarian control, in plain sight, does not endure the test of time. Hence the need for change. A change which lasted and went too through changes in time. The original democracy born in greece ment well to the people. In fact was an amazing idea. Nothing like what we have today. Today, the system is hidden, smart,giving the illusion of transparency by involving the population in the decision factor. Obviously a different recipe. A recipe who use modern ingredients. Among them- Gods
Chapter: Church
I m talking om gods and not God just to make everybody happy. What is important is the conection between institutes. At that is one or more then one is hard to say. What is certain is that they too develop
with the society. They too passed a lots of tests to see exactly which of them goes better with the idea of vote. History tests, full of violence and blood, a rough transition from polytheism to monotheism and within monotheism, to different variations on the same theme.We cannot separate religion from the system creators, because it is an integral part of the system , it’s always been a part of the system ever since the beginning.It was and still is one of the key-elements in the manipulation map own by the sytem
Initially a power in itself, basically emerged before the state. It is connected to the history of humanity, with our first moments of tying explaining
something seemed unexplainable. A ritual in the beginning, a power later. The history of religions is a long, separate subject, which doesn’t belong here.
It’s more important to mention two things: The first is the fact that they had pre-state forms of organization (their own army, taxation systems), authoritarian and oppressing systems, We’re talking about Islam and Christianity in Europe or other faiths around the world. Civilizations such as the Aztecs, the Inca, are now known for the degree of development they had reached with or without the help of their own Gods.
The second thing is the moment when power was transferred
in favor of the newly-emerged institutions
. The church chose, at a certain point, a role of collaborator to the element of power, a role of a tool in exchange for some benefits (especially financials).
Hard to say exactly the moment when all started. Certain at some point were conflicts at high leveles between church and elements of power. Influence had a roll. Where and how. Who would have what. Details who took time to be resolved. I will guess somewhere in the pre-monastic and monastic period can finally talk about collaboration.A collaboration which will remain constant despite all critical points and changes in the system. A connection between two powers which today form a whole!
State-Church
So we that the state is not something intrinsic and implicit.Nore the church. Their existence is not related to nature or to natural laws, but with our existence and our evolution. What we now accept naturally is nothing more than the result of the evolution of certain structures created by certain persons. The sinuous and violent evolution shows the imperfections of the structure and its incapacity to control certain moments. This generate in time critical points
. There is, therefore, a close relation between the critical points which lead to historical changes and the management
of the state creators. And if is hard to say the start moment between stat and church is not hard to follow the consequences of this colaboration. Some of the more important moments which led to major changes in the geo-cultural structure of the world.
The initial moments of religion, culture and language exports.
Chapter: The Pioneers of the Seas
I n order to explore or better say: have more, you need to have the ability to move. Some of the empires, especially England, Spain and Portugal, forged a special relation with the sea. The first ships, later armadas, were created here. Navigation techniques were basically invented by the first pioneers who ventured the seas. Replacing paddles with masts, sailboats that used the wind for propulsion, the creation of the first maritime maps, routes, orientation using the stars entailed a high level of understanding space location, S-N, E-W. A tedious process in which lots of men paid with their lives testing nature in unsafe ships. Nothing could stop our expansion, regardless of the risks. Many people speak of that time in romanticized terms, they speak of the beauty of human nature, of the pioneer spirit, of the desire for understanding and knowledge which has propelled humanity to new heights. Arguably, 5% could be allocated to these descriptions. In reality, the reasons were the same as before. More power, expansion by any means, areas of influence, gold, colonizing new territories. It’s still human nature and to a much higher degree. Basically, the state, or more correctly the ruling monarchies sponsored in the beginning these incursions into the unknown.So Europe had this start. Why? Because of location and those reasons we named erarlier. Because of this differents develop-moments,Europe simply could before others. The purpose was multiplying their investments tenfold. And they did, on the expense of the androgine (N.Tr. indigenous) populations. The emergence of large -s cale commerce , true, but unilateral. If Columbus or Vespucci discovered America, who truly discovered India or Australia is less important. The important thing is that once discovered, they became the property of their discoverers, goods and commodities included. Gold was the most sought-after