#state-quotes Jordan B. Peterson, Maps of Meaning: the Architecture of Belief (1999) 173 > No static political utopia is therefore possible, in consequence – and the kingdom of god remains spiritual, not worldly. Recognition of the essentially ambivalent nature of the predictable – stultifying, but secure – means discarding simplistic theories which attribute the existence of human suffering and evil purely to the state, or which presume that the state is all that is good, and that the individual should exist merely as subordinate or slave. The king is a wall. Walls provide a barrier to the sudden influx of the unknown, and block progress forward. One function presupposes the other (although either may certainly come to dominate).