The Origins of the State

Love Boat

The oldest female profession engendered the oldest male profession: tax collector.

Powerful men tend to accumulate large harems. If their relatives also managed local love temples, they collected more gifts if those temples had more inmates. This left more men lonely - and obliged them to give more, and more valuable, gifts to the temple's managers to satisfy their natural needs for companionship.

When arrangements for maintaining internal order were formalized into laws enforced by judges, hangmen and armed officers, love temples became brothels. The oldest female profession created the oldest male profession: tax collector. More taxes could be collected by raiding women from neighbouring tribes and bringing their men back to work as slaves. So all tribes had to arm and build fortifications and use internal colonialism to pay for external defense or expansion. The order of the state began when prostitution racketeering paid for protection racketeering. Repressive local government was justified by the need for protection against external aggression. This split society into repressors and repressed; hatred caused by internal injustice was deflected out against external neighbours who did the same.

As this happened, Mother Nature, Earth and other fertility Goddesses lost their jobs as providers of bounty and arbiters of good and evil. They were replaced by vengeful, jealous, wrathful male divinities, each of whom tolerated no competition and seemed to spend most of his time being adored by pious egoists or punishing people who disobeyed his commandments in any way.

Many animals - wolves, sheep... - combine into herds instinctively. This offers protection and improves organisation. Man, a political animal, also combines into families, clans, tribes... That way people can organize to do great things together, specialize to make life more interesting in many different ways. That is why many people like to live in cities (Greek: polis - whence politics) - the arts, culture, schools, theatres, museums... all tend make life there more interesting than being alone out on the land. The land is organized and exploited outward from the city, where knowledge is collected, decisions are made, and better weapons are developed and power accumulates. As standardized love gifts - metal money - begin to be mass-produced by the state and serve as a medium of exchange, cities expanded to nations and nations to Empires. This is not an extension of the herd instinct; it is a consequence of love gifting that developed into sacred prostitution and founded the first small states.