Comment Sovereign Individuals are victims (Score 1) 215
If the nation state goes away, the corporations certainly won't. Without the restrictions that the state can apply, what protection will the individual have? This crap ranks along the frequently-peddled line that the internet gives power to the individual consumer. Corporations don't pay any more attention to individual net shoppers than they do to ones that walk in their doors.
Human beings don't live in glorious isolation. Society is what we do, its our real specialisation (as opposed to intelligence). The Nation State is just another development of that.
By the way, the Nation State has not been ruling us for thousands of years. Its nowhere near that old.
Human beings don't live in glorious isolation. Society is what we do, its our real specialisation (as opposed to intelligence). The Nation State is just another development of that.
By the way, the Nation State has not been ruling us for thousands of years. Its nowhere near that old.
