When does the state turn to serve the individual?

When does the state turn to serve the individual?

For some philosophers, the state is thing what is above all, and the reason for that is that the state has established to serve people. So the people of the state must serve the state. In this philosophical hypothesis, both sides of the relationship between the state and individual persons would both get the benefit of this relationship, where the state protects the individual and for that process, each individual must give their stakes.

This is one way to say, that the state is above all. The reason for that might be some people thought that the apple of power was actually the hand grenade, what could kill everybody, who was against the king. If the king was angry, that person could use the hand grenade.  

The words of the philosophers have been searched and researched for hundreds of years. And still, nobody doesn't know, what exactly those people thought or what they meant when they wrote their thoughts. There are always thoughts that some philosopher has meant, what that inmate wrote.

That means that the thing is seen in their texts, there might be many meanings in their writings, and sometimes I have thought, how much those great persons could be written, if they have not written their ideas to paper? When we are thinking about things like the relationship between an individual and the state, those texts causes strong feelings even today.

And if they would be found in 18th. century, that might cause a very dangerous situation. So what would Voltaire do with network-based publication tools? When we are thinking about the role of the individual in the state, we might find the level, where the state starts to be one man. 

The idea of that has been copied from the famous phrase, what Luis XIV said once. "I'm the state" would be a very interesting way to rule the country. That makes the ruler unlimited user of power. But there is one little thing, and that is that what if the state loses the war? Would the king have anything, why other people leave that man alive?

The king is in the middle of the state, and that person cannot escape if the war goes bad way, and henchmen tell always, that the king has given every order int the state. And they afraid that the king would punish them if they would not follow the orders, and one of the best explanations is that some of those henchmen believed, that the apple of power was the hand grenade, what the ruler would use against the henchmen. Was that true or false, that thing is unknown.

The wild idea: was Valdemar Atterdag search for the Holy Grail when he attacked against Visby in the year 1361.

The wild idea: was Valdemar Atterdag search for the Holy Grail when he attacked against Visby in the year 1361. 

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The world is full of theories, and one reason, why I will write this text, is that many things, what we think as the fact might be something else, what people have been told. In medieval time, people were superstitious, and they believed things differently than modern people.  In 14th. century there were remains of the ancient pagan religion and the Catholic Church was really tough, if the person has some other opinions, what were accepted by that organization.

So if Valdemar Atterdag believed the Holy Grail, that would not mean, that this person has been found that relic. Search is different than finding something, and this is the thing, what many people forget when they are talking about this kind of things. If Atterdag searched for the Holy Grail, that would not mean, that this man has found anything. But It's interesting to think, what was the real reason, why Atterdag attacked Gotland in 1361.

The role of the researcher is to contest the things, what people normally think like the things, what are taken by granted. In the Medieval time, the truth about some actions might be far away from the things, what are told to the ordinary people. And the thing is that in the medieval time people were really superstitious. So was the reason why the King of Denmark Valdemar Atterdag actually looking for the Holy Grail when he attacked against Gotland in 1361.

When we are thinking about the war between Denmark and Gotland in 1361, we must realize that the reason, why The King Of Denmark, Valdemar Atterdag might claim that the pirates, who were attacked against Hansa's ships were the reason, why Atterdag made the decision to attack against Visby. That town was the only city on that island, and Atterdag had no problems with that operation.

So there were something very interesting details in that action. After the fall of the city, Atterdag ordered people to pay the prize about their fight. And the prize was three barrels of gold and diamonds or other jewels. And the only thing, what Atterdag wanted was the very famous granite cross of the cathedral of Visby.

The captains of the ships, which were ordered in that mission told, that they should wait for the next summer because the weather was going bad. But Atterdag ordered them to start the transportation. Those ships disappeared near the Karlsö-Islands at the southern cape of the Gotland. And that was the last time when that cross has ever seen.

But when we are looking at this case, we must ask, what made Atterdag believe that those pirates were from Visby? Was somebody told that thing to Atterdag? Or were those attackers recognize somewhere?

When we are thinking the reason, why wars began in the time of Atterdag, there could be reasons like the king was not want to pay the prizes to his mercenaries, and the war was a good reason for killing own men. But here is one very wild thing what brought in my mind.

This idea is so wild, that I almost don't dare to write it. Maybe Atterdag was looking for the Holy Grail. Who knows the truth about this man. But this kind of things is a really good way to spend the summer day.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valdemar_IV_of_Denmark

Picture I https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visby