Replying to Avatar Erik Dale

Nations are quite simply incompatible with the internet.

Like Catholicism after the printing press, or Monarchy after the death of God, they can never again be more than shells of their former selves.

This is inevitable, but..

The urge to resist this new reality could cause untold suffering, like the 30-Years War after the printing press, and the World Wars after the death of God.

Is this avoidable? Can we forge a new order in peace? Or must the old literally die first?
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Jaakko Vazha-Kareli 1y ago

Excellent questions. I don't see the nation states necessarily dying out, just diminishing in importance. Same thing has happened with the examples you mentioned: they're still around, but not in the same sense as they once were.

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