Tela Network

1 "… impossible to maintain individual freedom to not reproduce _and_ modern economies" Agreed. The West can no longer outsource reproduction or recessions via reserve currency privilege. 2 On the small states that will emerge to replace the old ones: Agreed. I’d qualify that slightly: None of the first-generation network states will call themselves "states". They'll be 'worker collectives', 'guilds', 'business networks', 'voluntary organisations', or some form of NGO. They'll be _de facto_ states with some or all the features you've described, but they'll find ways to justify their behaviour within the current _de jure_ regime. 'Discourses on Livy', Book I, Chapter 25: "… preserve at least a semblance of existing methods, so as not to appear to the people to have made any change in the old order of things." "… the mass of mankind accept what seems as what is." 'The Prince', Chapter 18: "Everyone sees what you seem to be, few touch upon what you are."