My own reaction to the election is as follows. I hoped that the nation-state model could drag out its existence for a while longer. But the kind of knowledge that groups can unconsciously access is greater than what individuals can do. The collective verdict is clearly that national governments are irrelevant and the market-state is on. It’s everybody for themselves, and national politics exists just for fun.
By the next election, it will be way too late to attempt salvaging the nation-state. Even the last sad remnants will be dead and gone.
At this point, the new world order is being constituted. Whoever saddles it first will own the 21st century like the US owned the 20th.
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I agree with you here that the nation state is in serious trouble, though I suspect I come at this from a different angle. One of the reasons I became an anarchist, was that I came to see the nation state as intrinsically racist and irreconcilable with diversity. It requires an accepted common culture and a sense of an in-group and out-groups. For pragmatic reasons, I might accept the nation-state for lack of better options as long as the accepted common culture was one that kept me well placed as part of the in-group. I might feel guilty about it, but I certainly like having my white male heterosexual privileges. Part of my problem with the left is that it thinks it can fight white male heterosexual privilege (a morally good thing), without taking into account what they are doing to the nation-state and what might replace it. The left failed to appreciate its own tribal nature and therefore failed to see how its own actions might create a counter angry white male without college degrees tribalism.
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Absolutely, there is no nation-state without a shared culture, shared morality, shared norms imposed coercively. Say goodbye to that, the nation-state follows. Liberation from state imposed morality has a steep price.
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