Thomas Hobbes Leviathan is the definitive work on this [0]. Modern nation states are living gods. For better or for worse, they are largely unconscious in their

Thomas Hobbes Leviathan is the definitive work on this [0]. Modern nation states are living gods. For better or for worse, they are largely unconscious in their actions and relatively slow to move. When a state level actor achieves agency on timescales similar to individual humans, I think all we can do is hope that whatever process brought it into being has endowed it with a love of all living beings and a propensity to let the living expire at their natural time. 0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leviathan_(book) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leviathan_(book)