Diary (April 17, 2020)
Online diary of Karl Jones for Friday April 17, 2020.
Diary
Post-nation-state worldview
Humanity began in small groups, which became villages, cities, city-states, kingdoms, empires, and, in our time, nation-states.
The long term pattern of civilzation is larger groups, larger numbers of people who are Us and not Them.
It stands to reason that the next stage is post-nation-state.
No single nation-state can "lead", because "leadership" by a single nation-state is old-style nation-state thinking.
[Source: Facebook comment]
Civilization as we know it has already ended
People worry about the end of civilization as we know it.
This is foolish.
Civilization as we know it has already ended.
See Future Shock by Alvin Toffler.
Wedding Horns
3:26 pm: Sound of honking horns, two or three cars, from a couple of blocks away. Must be a wedding -- the honking has that happy-honk quality of the Just Married Motorcade. I'll bet there were cans tied to the Newlyweds' car, though I was too far away to tell.