Two things: 1. The graphic is a woodcut. Details take a LOT of time to produce, and they make the woodcut less durable. 2. Remember that Hobbes's Leviathan id

Two things: 1. The graphic is a woodcut. Details take a LOT of time to produce, and they make the woodcut less durable. 2. Remember that Hobbes's Leviathan idea was revolutionary back then. The idea that each of us answers to an abstract entity of truth and justice overturned the idea that the monarchy could, and had to, dream up every single rule of conduct (or point to the Hebrew Bible when it was convenient). Here's a 21st century non-Leviathan way of thinking. On the wall of a flight school I once saw a printed sign saying "Do not buzz your house." Scrawled under that was "or anybody else's house either." In our Leviathan world we know it's unwise for student pilots, or anyone, to fly low over populated areas. We hardly have to run through the reasons: hurtling tanks of gas, telephone poles, small children ... Pre-Leviathan, everybody had to rely on handed-down laws. And when they were insufficient they had to be amended. (Gasoline fumes are well known to transport young men back to a pre-Leviathan mode of civilization. :-) Imagine the Internet in a pre-leviathan time. If all we knew was the content of RFC5861, and didn't know why TCP congestion control (slow-start / exponential backoff) was useful, routers would drop many more packets than they do today. Plus, I prefer my Big Brothers with long curly hair.