Technology changes. Institutions don’t. Until they do. The phenomenon I’ve called “state tectonics”. A Theory of State Tectonics
A longer piece on the same idea. Magnitude-Nine Politics
Instead of asking how democracy might be failing, let’s first ask: how did it ever succeed? Nobbling the Nobility
How gunpowder ended feudalism and gave us nation states. The Medieval Hiroshima
Politics as we know it is doomed and the democratisation of propaganda is to blame. Many-to-many Propaganda
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