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    Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 8 Jul 2018
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    Keeping technological capability constant at 2018 levels, if you could instantaneously transform the world into a completely different political geography, without wars or revolutions, what form would you cast it in? Example: city states world with everything else rewilded

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      2. Dandy Roddick‏ @Dandy_Roddick 8 Jul 2018
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        If I could transform the world I would be bound to wreck it even worse than it already is.

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      3. Austin M. Craig‏ @austinmcraig 8 Jul 2018
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      1. wenjimi‏ @JimiWen 8 Jul 2018
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        is neighborhood plausible as a basic unit? Where are clustering identities, but leaving enough mobility. If one or the neighbors diverge, just call the van company and have a farewell bbq.

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      1. Junk‏ @Junk_lzn 8 Jul 2018
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        humanity does not exist

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      2. Ariel Greenwood‏ @greenwoodae 8 Jul 2018
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        All environmental costs internalized

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        ALL ABOARD "Yes, I'll take one ticket to viable existence as a semicoherent global superorganism, please." CONDUCTOR "OK, with your discount that ticket'll just be all environmental costs internalized, please."

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      1. Evan Driscoll‏ @KeenDisregard 8 Jul 2018
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        Intrigued by liquid democracy, but not well-read. IMO It would lead to more varied pol-geo. Hmm, a 'hard transplant' of world contexts...

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      1. Dan listens to the last days of the first days‏ @danlistensto 8 Jul 2018
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        cities were a mistake. let's all live like ewoks in the forest.

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        World without wages and everything that holds that up

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      1. Fú lā jī mǐ'ěr‏ @vladw0rld 8 Jul 2018
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        All ocean, sea and navigable river coastline in the world (and everything up to a mile inland) would be a global freely traversable megastate overlapping with and taking precedence over existing borders. You would only ever encounter a border checkpoint when going farther inland.

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