Let's extend this metaphor. If society is a human body, then the state is the brain. Humans are unaware of their motives. If asked "why do you eat?" you might say "bc food tastes good" and not "bc I need food to survive." What might a state's food be? (hint: are pills food?)https://twitter.com/Aella_Girl/status/993212066801516544 …
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Why so?
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state is mainly concerned with keeping the body (the population) secure (immune system), "pure" (liver), and providing a safety net (spleen, red blood cell safety net), but is the product of a messy history including genetic parasitism.
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then who or what decides which actions the body that is society performs?
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nobody. the metaphor breaks down if you try too hard to force chordate physiology on it. mycelial network super-organisms is a better model.
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this is a shocking thing and basically intolerable to most people so there is a performance art aspect of government that is meant to sincerely convince people that someone is in control. they aren't though.
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you mean there's no governmental cabal making foreign policy decisions? when acting voluntarily/with agency, humans mostly don't choose to modify themselves: they go for other humans or something else in the world
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not saying your metaphor is wrong, but all metaphors are wrong and I'm trying to point this one in a particular direction :P
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have at it then. i think if you insist on central state authority as brain you'll talk yourself into tinfoil hat level conspiratardism though
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