BlackGrowth

Here we start our comparison between a living - human – body and a State . To understand how close we can relate them, we will begin by looking at what they are made of. We are likely to need a microscope, then. We will analyse structure, function and disease. Cells like individuals Cells are the fundamental basis of any living being. Nothing smaller or simpler than a cell can be living. If it lives, it is either a cell or made of cells. Similarly, in a State the fundamental unit is the individual. Nothing less than an individual person can be a working part of the State. And if it is part of the State, it is either a person, a group of people or a concept thought by people. Cells belonging to the same organism are very similar, sharing a common genetic background and all contributing to the same system; and yet can be very different, specialized in a variety of tasks, subject to a variety of stimuli and stresses. For very similar reasons, just transposed in a different con...

A State and an animal body are two examples of very complex systems. They are both composed of units organized on different levels. Those units are required to efficiently cooperate for the wider system to survive. Given the similarities between the State and a - human - body, the second has already been used as an allegory to describe the first 1 , 2 .      Here, I will apply definitions from biology and medicine as metaphors to concepts of politology. When describing a living being, both at microscopical or macroscopical level, three main aspects can be distinguished: i) its anatomy, or how it is physically made;  ii) its physiology, or how it works; iii) its pathology, or how it gets disfunctional.      All those aspects are directly interlinked and dependent on each other, bearing strict cause-effect relationships. On these basis, I am going to identify the correspondences between multiple organs and systems of a human body and the fun...