I am lost

I cannot grasp how God of the Machine connects a
1. belief in the regrettable necessity of building codes
to a
2. belief in the perfectability of the state.

Analagous, perhaps, would be connecting "the regrettable necessity to have penal codes to a belief in the perfectability of the state." No? But no one of either left or right make such a connection. I don't think anyone does, anyway. It is not that we think that The State (always in caps) is so wonderful but that criminals are so bad and we want protection from them.