It's not feasible now but it's still more feasible than peaceful secession scenarios. That won't be allowed
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Replying to @Witch_Hammer @Outsideness
Secession is still more *likely* to happen, but it won't be peaceful.
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If people were sensible (which, of course, they're not), they'd flake off the hyper-urban cosmopolitan tech-comm micro-states first. ...
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... They're largely indifferent to territory, except as interchange hubs, so they'd sign up to highly-parsimonious geographical deals. ...
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... Once they're out of the political equation, the various American nations could get down to carving the place up at the joints. ...
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... Until the cosmopolitan interest is formally localized (or 'enclaved'), nothing else will happen because the fog is too thick. ...
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... Naturally, none of this is probable. Collapse, war, and clawing things back together from the ashes is by far the most likely route.
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Yes and it looks like we've already crossed the event horizon for something like that
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Replying to @Witch_Hammer @Outsideness
I bet most Joes would be OK with some sort of decentralization or re-organizing of the US into a loose confederacy, maybe not full secession
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Most will go along with and even mimetically entertain any system they find themselves in, so long as basic necessities are met.
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Inertia rules so powerfully that history can only proceed through a sequence of catastrophes. (Equilibrium --> Degeneration --> Crash.)
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