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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Replying to @simpolism
state isn't the brain. it's a combination of immune system, liver, spleen, deleterious vestigial traits, and viral dna.
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Replying to @simpolism
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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Replying to @danlistensto
the state as an entity being "concerned with" these tasks strikes me as demonstrating the state/govt is the brain, and it instructs other entities such as the military, the fbi, the safety net bureaucracy, etc to carry out those tasks, via a nervous system/communication channel
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Replying to @simpolism
what is "the state" if not those organs? do you mean congress? the president? those are decision making organs, and maybe can be considered something brainlike, but the state is much more than just that
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yeah, isn't "the deep state" the sum of decision-making entities operating within the US governmental apparatus? obviously it's not localized in space as a brain might be, but neither is society.
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right! the "deep state" idea points to this really effectively. decision making is not nearly as high level, executive, or centralized as it seems to be. it really happens at the periphery, not the center.
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