It is, but it's also exponentially easier to inflict pain. And to simply avoid dealing with it in key ways. And that trend will continue.
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My point is that examples of decentralisation taking place outside the sphere of territorial sovereignty are of limited relevance.
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Over the long term, it looks like a metabolic-catabolic cycle. That's certainly what the Chinese think. Empires don't grow to the sky.
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Because no tech on the foreseeable horizon readily portends a threat to that territorial monopoly on violence thing.
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Any path to territorial decentralization must necessarily disrupt said monopoly and (physically) force it to concede.
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