"It should not be concluded that war is a state of nature, but rather that it is the mode of a social state that wards off and prevents the State. Primitive war does not produce the State any more than it derives from it."
On Friendship:
"Even in bands of animals, leadership is a complex mechanism that does not act to promote the strongest, but rather inhibits the installation of stable powers, in favor of a web of immanent relations. One could just as easily compare the form "high society life" to the form "sociability" among the most highly evolved men and women: high society groups are similar to gangs, and operate by the diffusion of prestige rather than by reference to centers of power, as in social groupings (Proust clearly showed this noncorrespondence of high society values and social values)."
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Nomadology: The War Machine
