01-23-2017, 03:49 PM
(01-23-2017, 10:34 AM)Warren Dew Wrote:(01-23-2017, 04:23 AM)Galen Wrote: Those maps suggest to me that era of the nation state is ending. The fact that all of the western nations are effectively bankrupt helps underscore that point.
I'm not sure whether that's the case or whether it's just that the borders are wrong. Since the June article, it has become more clear that Brexit is about recovering sovereignty from a supranational organization. The market state was an interesting idea, but I don't think that's how things are panning out.
There is a case for many borders being wrong, particularly in the mid-east. I maintain that the cost of projecting power from the center is rising versus the cost for defense. Look at wrote Davidson and Lord Rees-Mogg because political systems are dependent on the logic of violence to impose their will. If the conditions of power projection change, I think they are changing, then artifacts of politics such as borders will change.
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If one rejects laissez faire on account of man's fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action. -- Ludwig von Mises