Making Sense of Brexit

[Galen]

(01-23-2017, 04:28 PM)Warren Dew Wrote:

(01-23-2017, 03:49 PM)Galen Wrote:

(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.

Interesting.  How do you think the relative cost of power projection is changing?

It is getting increasingly harder to project power from the center which implies that the cost of offense relative to defense is increasing.  Five hundred years ago the reverse was true and so you saw the end of feudalism which depended on defense being cheaper relative to offense.  It is also worth noting that the preeminent institution of the time, the Church, was going bankrupt.