Missing Out by Adam Phillips

Author:Adam Phillips
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 2016-02-15T05:00:00+00:00

was the rise of the nation-state as the ultimate focus of collective loyalty in a society. People have, for example, been willing to fight and die for the United States or Germany or France or Japan in a way that they would not be willing to fight and die for Kansas City or Vitry-le-François.

How do governments, so to speak, get away with it? That is, how does the government manage as a system of status function superior to other status functions? One of the keys, perhaps the most important key, is that typically governments have a monopoly on organised violence. Furthermore, because they have a monopoly on the police and the armed forces, they in effect have control of a territory in a way that corporations, churches and ski clubs do not control a territory. The combination of control of the land plus a monopoly on organised violence guarantees government the ultimate power role within competing systems of status functions … Though military and police power are different from political power, there is no such thing as government, no such thing as political power, without police power and military power.

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