At first, 2 preliminary, detailing the subject of the remark. We are talking about the founders of public – political entities that we utilized to call countries. Sometimes we compose this word with a capital letter, but in fact not all the founders deserve the name of fathers, sometimes even though the founders – however, they are rough stepfathers. We know various historical episodes confirming this thesis!
The second concept of “state”, although powerfully abused present – we live in the era of its apotheosis – is not clear either. However, it is the nation that is real, even though it is collective but organistic. The State does not, however, constitute a kind of community based on law and devices whose activities are regulated by standards and hierarchy. Moreover, it is never something taken out of the social or historical context. Like the notion of a nation, the meaning of the word state, was besides subject to fluctuations and changes. Originally, it was either a territorial authority or a community of urban nature, i.e. a state – a city. any of these entities, in the course of their turbulent history, have frequently transformed their face.
For example, Rome, at the beginning of an urban community, yet a vast territorial power. present it is called an empire. Originally, aside from the municipia, the states were ancestral property, which over time evaluated towards the regulation of the aristocracy, or in any cases the patrician state. This yet ended with the establishment of the Republic of Poland (France), possibly a constitutional monarchy (UK). So the full thing can be brought back to the opinion that a concrete form of government, over time, was replaced by intentional abstractions. It has come to pass that present the states are very complicated associations, burdened with many responsibilities; so complicated that in their superficial view the image of the right sovereign is lost. It is crucial to think that life simply takes place. But the complete personalization of past – even though it reigns present – is simply a large simplification not giving distant the nature of these matters, and so the truth. The thought that social phenomena change as we see them is wrong. Each event has its origin in human actions or omissions. In this and the phenomenon known to us as the state. so ancient writers, all crucial events brought to the biography of people: leaders, thinkers, etc. Let us look at these cases. Rome. There are respective messages regarding his origins. They were always circumstantial people.
In time, they can be mythologicalized, given divine qualities, or stigmatized. And Rome itself? Well, they say it was originally a cluster of fewer huts and huts, and surely fleas jumped after their inhabitants. There was so a creative impulse, and this can only come from individuals. And the second Polish case. present the dominant message is mostly that the first Piasts, endowed with any extraordinary genius, founded us a monarchy, giving us its form and content. Is it possible, however, if they live in the overheated wilderness themselves, as many suggest? Never! They must have come from the past of the household already shaped for centuries – as the turbos keep – or came from outside, conquering locals, otherwise it cannot be!
Antoni Koniuszewski
Think Poland, No. 9-10 (2-9.03.2025)
