antimeme

Religion was technically the first network state

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I dunno how many tribes had codified systems of culture but perhaps the predecessor to religion

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I hadn’t given enough further thought to it to determine which religion specifically, but I had lines of thought leading this direction; thank you for the contribution 🫡, pretty much agree

Christianity specifically.  Before that religions were very regional or less accepting of strangers.

Christianity and its message of universal acceptance made it so you could literally have “family” in every major and minor city in the known world.

It was radically different and one of the reasons it spread as quickly as it did.  It’s also why it became a problem for rulers - all of sudden their subjects had this other, transnational allegiance, which is something kings don’t like.

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network states are everywhere if you think of it

what is older than religion?

cults phaps

Its not considered the the 'opiate of the masses' for nuthin

'we want to make our own laws' + 'we want our own land' + weird dogma = cult