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 Originally Posted by a500lbgorilla
Sure, why does it seem to happen every time?
First off, "it" doesn't exactly happen every time. An element of authoritarianism is that it is authoritarian over all, else it isn't fully authoritarianism, which is a type of contradiction in definition. Yet elements of various societies show a different amount of authoritarianism in different ways. This shows it isn't necessarily a necessity, and instead more like emergent from other elements that may or may not be natural, so to speak.
One of the main options I think to be most credible is that the state is trending. When it's the trend, it tends to stay the trend. For example, one use of clothing is to hide tits. This isn't exactly a natural state of human life, but it's something we're always going to do partly because we always do it.
Even if you and I were gods and we had proven that the state is not the natural way of humankind, any reasonable assessment of the future we could provide would include a trending towards the state by human civilizations for quite some time.
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