>> But I like the sentiment. I think the problem is more than the >> State. It's the pathetic infrastructure that would be an eyesore >> for centuries. > > Bear in mind that the "State" is a model of governance, not a synonym > for governance. It is a failed model, as witness the Anthropocene > Era's mass extinction even in progress and the pending human > population crash.
> Many people assume that keeping the World As We Know It intact and > walking it back to conditions comparable to the 1950s is humanity's > Great Mission Objective. I don't mind calling that mind set a mass > suicide imperative. If the image of lemmings running off a cliff did > not exist, it would have been necessary to create it. That's good material, yet. Think ahead to the next era: POST cyber-dystopia. I.E. the world fails and anarchy resumes. It fails too and new feudal bands emerge, violence, then the State re-emerges to handle the violence. The solution, then, is a META-state. A system of order bigger and better than the State. \0xd