Thanks for the kind words. How might I have influenced in regards to a historical dialectic? Fukuyama's vision beyond comical by this point.
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I haven't gotten too far in but earlier this year was struck by some of your comments on the unlikelihood of any return to certain kinds of
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'conservative' dreamworlds involving traditional, ethnically-based nation states. Rather seeing a future of various kinds of more tribal or
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personal allegiances, and that these would cut across traditional lines. It struck me then as a contemporary take on some of the themes in
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The spread of info since printing press has allowed smaller political organization to scale up. Empires > Nation-states > tribe-states.
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i wonder how many of the government services we are used to will be provided, or if they will. Or if those kinds of states will still be
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around precisely as common service areas but not as loci of identity. Or indeed of conflict. I am reminded again of Neal Stephenson, somehow
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There will be identity but not quite as it is now. Can think of it as types, "breeds", neurotypes of people, geography not as important.
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I'm fascinated by such prospects. Not sure whether like or dislike. At 46, not sure how much I'll see. Used to read a lot of SF on such ...
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themes. Or at least that touched glancingly at them. I don't know if I'm just more down on them for age reasons or just morbid about future.
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It will be different, that's for sure. And like any other big shift, there's winners and losers. I see it as reaction to atomized modernity.
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