Beyond
Hobbes’s Leviathan: The Alarming
Visions of JG Ballard
The 17th
philosopher Thomas Hobbes believed that, without a civilising authority,
humankind is condemned to live in a state
of nature, where there is war of all
against all and life is nasty, brutish
and short. In his book Leviathan,
Hobbes proposed that there was a profound drive, or law of nature, to escape this fate:
