ABSTRACT
Statism is the necessary foundation of all of the most enduring of them, especially in the West, Russia, and China. Statism is a set of impassioned beliefs, or convictions, that are hybridized with and built upon the natural human identifications with loved ones, especially in the extreme form of parent-child identification in which children at first so greatly identify with the father and mother that they barely have separate sense of self and must slowly drift away from their parents to do so. Empires in the beginning are normally largely involuntary groups in which the imperial power uses military force and payoffs to subunit state rulers to gain subservience or acquiescence, but emperors from the very beginning of the dual empire of ancient Egypt have used every means, especially those of mass agitprop, to foster the myths of statism. Statism is a mythical reification or concretization of supra-individual identification which is always partly based on extra-rational, impassioned beliefs, or myths.
