{"id":6173,"date":"2023-03-21T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-21T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/?p=6173"},"modified":"2022-12-26T15:11:06","modified_gmt":"2022-12-26T15:11:06","slug":"looking-at-david-graeber-and-david-wengrows-chapter-2021-why-the-state-has-no-originpart-9-of-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/?p=6173","title":{"rendered":"Looking at David Graeber and David Wengrow&#8217;s Chapter (2021) &#8220;Why The State Has No Origin&#8221;(Part 9 of 13)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>0230 However, unbeknownst to Graeber and Wengrow, there is&nbsp;<em>another definition<\/em>&nbsp;that arises from&nbsp;<em>a historical differentiation of category-based nested forms due to the explicit abstraction afforded by speech-alone talk<\/em>.&nbsp;&nbsp;Society<sub>3<\/sub>, organization<sub>2<\/sub>&nbsp;and individual in community<sub>1<\/sub>&nbsp;are the first to differentiate after&nbsp;<em>the first singularity<\/em>.&nbsp;&nbsp;The differentiation continues until&nbsp;<em>situation-level sovereign power<sub>3b<\/sub><\/em>&nbsp;differentiates from&nbsp;<em>content-level institutions<sub>3a<\/sub><\/em>&nbsp;in&nbsp;<em>the society<sub>C<\/sub>&nbsp;tier<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0231 Here is a picture comparing&nbsp;<em>the two situation-level category based nested forms<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Slide36.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Slide36.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6174\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Slide36.png 600w, https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Slide36-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Figure 36<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>0232 The first nested form is from&nbsp;<em>the chapter on presence<\/em>&nbsp;in Razie Mah&#8217;s masterwork,&nbsp;<em>How To Define the Word &#8220;Religion&#8221;<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The second nested form is from chapter ten in David Graeber and David Wengrow&#8217;s masterwork,&nbsp;<em>The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0233 From this comparison, I conclude that Graeber and Wengrow&#8217;s definition of the &#8220;state&#8221;<sub>2b<\/sub>&nbsp;coincides with sovereign acts and decrees<sub>2b<\/sub>.&nbsp;&nbsp;The potential for order<sub>1b<\/sub>&nbsp;parallels the possibility of domination<sub>1b<\/sub>.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>The potentials underlying the term, &#8220;domination&#8221;<sub>1a<\/sub><\/em>&nbsp;by extension, associates to&nbsp;<em>the possibilities inherent in righteousness<sub>1a<\/sub><\/em>.&nbsp;&nbsp;Or even worse, the potentials underlying the term, &#8220;domination&#8221;<sub>1a<\/sub>, defines righteousness<sub>1a<\/sub>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>0230 However, unbeknownst to Graeber and Wengrow, there is&nbsp;another definition&nbsp;that arises from&nbsp;a historical differentiation of category-based nested forms due to the explicit abstraction afforded by speech-alone talk.&nbsp;&nbsp;Society3, organization2&nbsp;and individual in community1&nbsp;are the first to differentiate after&nbsp;the first singularity.&nbsp;&nbsp;The differentiation continues until&nbsp;situation-level sovereign power3b&nbsp;differentiates from&nbsp;content-level institutions3a&nbsp;in&nbsp;the societyC&nbsp;tier. 0231 Here is a picture comparing&nbsp;the two situation-level category [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[280],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-intimations-of-political-philosophy"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.9 - 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