Wild idea. Imagine all nation states and governing entities right down to city level go away, and all movement is governed by microvisas we all issue each other (with algorithmic aid) that apply to territories we happen to temporarily control in some way.https://twitter.com/vgr/status/1186014605102862336 …
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Under most circumstances, most of us (not even most 2nd amendment gun nuts) wouldn't instantly harm someone we found in our space (home, office) who wasn't an obvious clear and present danger. We'd challenge/talk to them, call the cops or something.
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Our basic mutuality-humanity-recognition instincts are actually far more humane than the design of laws and formal structures we've developed to codify/govern them. Design is inhumane because designing to the "limit of decency" is actually hard.
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Trigger-happy gun nuts who would in fact instantly shoot anyone in their claimed territory in a shoot-on-sight mode are either people under orders from military/police regimes OR crazy people who take our space-governance systems a little too literally.
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Control of territory at scale is predicated on state monopolies on violence. Microvisas aggregated into larger areas become de facto states, and then you're back where you started, walls, borders, and all.
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The paradox captured by Pirsig: If a revolution destroys a systematic government, but the systematic patterns of thought that produced that government are left intact, then those patterns will repeat themselves in the succeeding government. - Zen & Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
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