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#682: The Death of the Nation-State (Clip) · Macroaggressions

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  I want to get into something I was kind of contemplating while I was writing the book
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  and this is that, you know, the concept of the nation-state I think is going away.
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  And I have no inherent love for it and I don't love the state.
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  Something will take its place and I'm not necessarily saying that it's going to be
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  something better.
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  But we didn't always live in a society run by nation-states.
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  It's been done differently over the years and because we're in this current paradigm
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  it feels like the only possibility out there.
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  Like, it's tough to imagine a world without government or without this type of government.
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  But I mean, it's easy if you try to borrow a line from John Lennon.
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  I mean, imagine there's no government and my problem with government obviously is
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  the emcee of the largest anarchist conference in the world.
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  I mean, clearly I'm going to be on the side of let's get rid of the government.
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  But I'm also reasonable and I understand that it's not as easy as just waving a magic wand
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  and poof the government disappears.
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  Now what do we do?
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  You have to have a plan.
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  You can't just decide, I want the United States to disappear and then wave your wand
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  and it does, what do you have to replace it?
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  Because the power vacuum will be filled by somebody, right?
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  And frankly, it matters who is proposing to change this, right?
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  Because I may say I have a problem with the nation state and I'd like to go to a different model, right?
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  And that would be a true statement.
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  But if the competing model is offered by Peter Thiel, I'm not interested.
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  You know what I mean?
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  So it's not as simple as just saying, I want something different just for the sake of it being different.
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  No, no, I want something better.
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  And what we have right now isn't working.
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  I think it's pretty clear to anybody with the eyes to see it that this experiment that we have, you know,
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  in America, they talk about how we're a democracy, democracy rules and all that stuff.
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  Well, first of all, we're not a democracy.
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  We're a constitutional republic.
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  But we're not even that anymore.
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  We're a cacostop, ruled by the worst people, ruled by criminals, ruled by thieves, ruled by scumbags.
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  That's where we are.
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  It's an oligarchy is like implies that the people at the top are competent.