War is not always undertaken by States. This why the magician-king’s greatest illusion is war, which is the result of his most masterful conjuring trick.
At various times and places, war been primarily an anti-State force, dissolving them and dispersing power (Clastres, Archaeology of Violence). In fact, the original warrior is an outsider whose knows nothing about ruling the State, only its destruction. Yet war is rarely a whole way of life for these people, but rather the creation connections without the alliances, pacts, and bonds of the State. War is therefore a necessary but supplementary dimension of these people, and it emerges only when their existence collides with their enemy (the State, the city, etc) (ATP: 417). It is rare for Archaic States to have war machines of their own (417-8). To wage war, then, the Archaic State must capture warriors from the outside, which it carefully does from a distance. The Archaic Sovereign summons its own war machine by mutilating these outsiders, ridding them of any memory of life beyond the State (424-5). The mutilations of State violence do not come from war, but as the price for people to work. The State first gives them a wound that never heals, hurting them until the pain becomes a pleasant reminder of the suffering, sacrifice, and loss that it took to live ‘meaningful life’. The violence of the Archaic State therefore takes on a unique significance, it appears as ‘the magic of birth;’ a miracle: pre-accomplished, necessary, and justified (424, 426). “This is why theses on the origin of the State are always tautological,” as the State’s existence is premised on the denial and non-recognition of life outside it (426).
The gods positioned this global situation with a telepathic audience in the hundreds of millions to create the appearance/perception of an evil/wicked diety, thereby corrupting those unable to deceipher the clues and understand their true intent. This has effectively created a division between those with hope and The Damned, sentenced to dig a hole for themselves they may never recover from as they fall for temptation the gods test them with.
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