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This concept applies everywhere. Fossilized habits make you a victim to change. You can't adapt to a situation you don't understand.

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Why are places like Dubai, Singapore, Hong Kong etc. outpacing the West? Their governments weren't around to learn our bad habits.

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If you want to make a city state today, you have to know what you're doing. Nation states have the advantage of already being established.

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But this advantage will mean precious little as outdated political systems give way to systemic pressures. Tech cares not for your treatise.

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"Hi I'm the Internet. Oh look, your government's take on information security is informed by 1920s spycraft. How quaint."