03-14-2017, 03:26 AM
(03-14-2017, 12:54 AM)Kinser79 Wrote:Galen Wrote:This is a good analogy and you are right about how troops are likely to react. A more important question is does the twenty-first century mark the demise of the nation-state in the way the sixteenth did to the Church?
I'm not entirely sure. The Catholic Church still exists though in a much diminished form. As for Europe, Nation-States are formed on the basis of Nations (See Stalin's Marxism and the National Question), and it is unlikely that mankind has evolved to a point where a state is no longer necessary so I doubt it.
Will the nation-state be greatly diminished? Probably.
Exactly where I was going. As Lord Rees-Mogg and Davidson might have said, "The rituals of citizenship in the future will regarded as irrational as the religious rituals of the Middle Ages".
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard. -- H.L. Mencken
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
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