http://www.thefighting44s.com/archives/2008/06/20/us-and-them/ Uniting the Asian Conscience Thu, 29 Jul 2010 15:30:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 http://www.thefighting44s.com/archives/2008/06/20/us-and-them/#comment-6742 analogisnumberone Thu, 03 Jul 2008 22:27:44 +0000 http://www.thefighting44s.com/archives/2008/06/20/us-and-them/#comment-6742 So what triggered the change? The extreme violence of building nation states did. At some point nation states might not even be sustainable, with their fake structures of culture, etc. Nations as we know them with their centralized power structures might self-destruct. We see the signs of weaknesses in the State structures through the histories of populations the world over, fed up and willing to overthrow their "fearless leaders". If it gets bad enough for the elite, we could overthrow the whole concept of nation-states, and we might have some semblance of reigonal autonomies, and hopefully, some participatory democracy. So what triggered the change? The extreme violence of building nation states did. At some point nation states might not even be sustainable, with their fake structures of culture, etc. Nations as we know them with their centralized power structures might self-destruct. We see the signs of weaknesses in the State structures through the histories of populations the world over, fed up and willing to overthrow their “fearless leaders”. If it gets bad enough for the elite, we could overthrow the whole concept of nation-states, and we might have some semblance of reigonal autonomies, and hopefully, some participatory democracy.

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