Getting Past the Dominance of the Nation State
An Australian citizen is an Ecuadorian embassy in England, in order to protect himself from multiple governments that are trying to jail him who coincidentally have been hurt by information he&#x27;s published as a journalist. Allegedly, a politician who was quite powerful and stood to become even more powerful asked why he couldn&#x27;t just be assassinated (I think there was never a reliable source for this last bit).<p>Nation states are the only thing that can protect us from the powerful.<p>Eliminating nation states would be like having one lawyer arguing both sides of a criminal case. We need nation states to advocate for their citizens and we need nation states working against each other and competing to ensure the best outcome for everyone.<p>Support your nation state that supports you. In a world without nation states, when the government turns against you, you&#x27;ll have nowhere left to go.<p>&gt; The Nation State is too large a unit for good experiments. Take education as an example. Having a national policy makes little sense at a time when technology is fundamentally changing how learning can occur.<p>So just run those experiments at a smaller scale than the federal government. Nice to see everyone finally catching onto the idea of States&#x27; Rights.<p>&gt; Information technology allows new approaches to regulation through transparency. In many instances what the federal level role should be is provide requirements for transparency of and interoperability between local&#x2F;regional policies. This means we could have a significantly smaller Federal Government in terms of the number of direct employees, size of agencies and body of regulations.<p>Again, this has nothing to do with the existence of nation states.