After the State: The Coming of Neo-Medievalism and the Great Decentralization
The tendency toward political centralization that has characterized the western world for many centuries, first under monarchical rule and then under democratic auspices, must be reversed. -Hans Herman Hoppe Every time the subject of a possible US civil war or national divorce comes up I hear the same micron deep takes. America couldn’t break up because the division isn’t by state, its Urban Vs. Rural. Or that Urban vs. Rural isn’t the divide, even then people of different politics are mixed up together. Or that for every clear red or blue state there’s a purple state. None of which is in any way relevant to anything until you recognize the naïve mental model many of these people are working on... These takes betray a belief that a second civil war would be some kind of conflict between coherent independent states who’ve started identifying with/against the idea of union such as happened in the 1860s… or that somehow there’d be a series of tidy Quebec style referendums resulting in a c
After the State: The Coming of Neo-Medievalism and the Great Decentralization My Biggest Theory Piece Kulak Mar 29, 2024 286 65 63 Share Hey! You! Join Us at the Anarchonomicon Discord Server! The tendency toward political centralization that has characterized the western world for many centuries, first under monarchical rule and then under democratic auspices, must be reversed. -Hans Herman Hoppe Every time the subject of a possible US civil war or national divorce comes up I hear the same micron deep takes. A merica couldn’t break up because the division isn’t by state, its Urban Vs. Rural.
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