58/ TY! I think we've been seeing this new world slowly coalesce for 20+ years already. It may take another 30, 50, or 130 until it's fully fledged. Gutenberg press (1440) -> US Declaration of Independence (1776) took some time.https://twitter.com/MogTheUrbanite/status/1351550172258451459 …
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69/ They didn't have the good luck to be born HERE, to be part of THIS wonderful little culture? That's what I imagine we're going to see 50-150 years from now. Lots of little tribes / phyles / polities, each with their own norms, traditions, and values.
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70/ Will there be dissidents? Of course! And in a sane world, dissidents will do what they've always done - find their own kind. The current Westphalian system is a legacy of expensive travel, non existent communication, poor sorting.
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71/ I look forward to the future where our tribe, of 70 or 170 or 270 million, selected not by accident of birth location, but by belief in hard work, family, equality before the law, the right to make one's own mistakes, the right to worship God (or not), can stand on its feet.
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72/ Welcome to the New Country.https://twitter.com/MogTheUrbanite/status/1351932617004781573 …
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73/ A friend sent me a link to an almost decade-old article, that overlaps w some of my points.https://www.wired.com/2013/11/software-is-reorganizing-the-world-and-cloud-formations-could-lead-to-physical-nations/ …
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74/ > What might these reverse diasporas be like? As a people whose primary bond is through internet, many of their properties would not fit our pre-existing mental models... these emigrants would be moving within or between nation states to become part of a community yes.jpg
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