Think that is giving the ‘state’ abit too much credit. The state is just the crime gang that won… for the state never asked for consensus through cooperation but imposed conformity through coercion.
Its de facto legitimacy on the ownership of violence is a faux fabrication yet only given credibility when it is also the de jure owner of violence… it is this title that is being lose as we transition from industrial age to Information Age as it has in all the transition of the ages. The gang that won finds itself uprooted
