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Darwinian competition among small states only lets you compare their local effectiveness, when the question is how they affect the world.

@MemberOfSpecies Why is that "the question"? Is globalism the substitute axiom for moral universalism?

@UF_blog Though maybe I should say "ecosystem failures" or "arena failures", as the process involves reproduction and probably fighting.

@MemberOfSpecies If entropy dissipation is 'success' (surely yes), then it tends very strongly to be an intrinsically localized phenomenon.

@MemberOfSpecies Universalist utility evaluation might seem intuitively fair, but the only radical realization of 'fairness' is heat-death.

@UF_blog If the claim is "political fragmentation may hurt the average person, but it helps the few particular groups I care about",

@MemberOfSpecies It's not quite that because "a politics helping the average person" is essentially hallucinatory. You get communism instead

@UF_blog The strongest defense of exit/fragmentation, to me, would be something like