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Will we eventually see a return to communal government? Will the Internet make people distrusting and skeptical of the goodwill of national authority, to the point that we enter a "post-political" world? Would this be a good thing, or a bad thing?
return to communal government ? isnt there a mayor in your town or a commissioner for your county, sounds comunal to me, as for the internet and technology in general i think we are all ultimately heading toward a global hive mind with no political viewpoints at all . Resistance is futile
The idea of the "nation-state" itself is an idea that's only been around for the last few centuries. For much of human history, it was more like the province, tribe and even neighborhood that people based their personal identities around...
People in the past did not see themselves as Native Americans, Indians, Italians, etc. They saw themselves as Apache, Navajo, Tamils, Punjabis, Sicilians, etc.
The US is neither a nation nor a nation-state. It is a country.
Japan is a nation-state. So is Denmark, Sweden and quite a few others.
Given that many nation-states have been around for several centuries, I'd be reluctant to call it a fad.
several centuries might seem like a very long time, but compared to the tens of thousands of years of human history (at least), it's really a flash in the pan. whether it's a permanent aspect of geopolitics from this point on imo, is very up in the air.
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