On Aug 26, 11:29 pm, turtoni fastmail.net> wrote:

Speaking of which...

Somewhere there are still peoples and herds,
but not with us, my brethren: here there are states.
A state? What is that? Well! open now your ears
unto me, for now will I say unto you my word
concerning the death of peoples.

A state, is called the coldest of all cold monsters.
Coldly lieth it also; and this lie creepeth from its
mouth: "I, the state, am the people."

It is a lie! Creators were they who created peoples,
and hung a faith and a love over them: thus they served
life. Destroyers, are they who lay snares for many, and
call it the state: they hang a sword and a hundred
cravings over them.

Where there is still a people, there the state is not
understood, but hated as the evil eye, and as sin
against laws and customs.

-Thus Spoke Zarathustra,
FN

Hell, read the whole thing.