The End of the Nation-State

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Mises

The End of the Nation-State

08/10/2017 Doug Casey

Mankind has, so far, gone through three main stages of political organization since Day One, say 200,000 years ago, when anatomically modern men started appearing. We can call them Tribes, Kingdoms, and Nation-States.

Karl Marx had a lot of things wrong, especially his moral philosophy. But one of the acute observations he made was that the means of production are perhaps the most important determinant of how a society is structured. Based on that, so far in history, only two really important things have happened: the Agricultural Revolution and the Industrial Revolution. Everything else is just a footnote.

Let’s see how these things relate.

The Agricultural Revolution and the End of Tribes

In prehistoric times, the largest political/economic group was the tribe. In that man is a social creature, it was natural enough to be loyal to the tribe. It made sense. Almost everyone in the tribe was genetically related, and the group was essential for mutual survival in the wilderness. That made them the totality of people that counted in a person’s life — except for “others” from alien tribes, who were in competition for scarce resources and might want to kill you for good measure.       

[righteousmomma]

This entire article has some relevant and valid historical points but on the whole I find it disturbing.

Maybe its just me - but the author seems to come at world history from a scientific evolutionary stance - by that I simply and simplistically  mean that he infers there is NO Creator God who made human beings a living soul with a mind, emotions and a will. To put it bluntly he comes across to me as an atheist with no vision and no hope.

But as Mr. Monk would say: "Maybe I am wrong...................but! I don't think so.

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2 hours ago, righteousmomma said:

This entire article has some relevant and valid historical points but on the whole I find it disturbing.

Maybe its just me - but the author seems to come at world history from a scientific evolutionary stance - by that I simply and simplistically  mean that he infers there is NO Creator God who made human beings a living soul with a mind, emotions and a will. To put it bluntly he comes across to me as an atheist with no vision and no hope.

But as Mr. Monk would say: "Maybe I am wrong...................but! I don't think so.

Well here's is profile

Doug Casey

Douglas R. Casey is a world-renowned speculator, libertarian philosopher, and best-selling author. He is the founder and chairman of Casey Research (https://www.caseyresearch.com/), where he publishes The Casey Report, a financial newsletter from an anarcho-capitalist perspective.

[righteousmomma]

AHH HA!!  My intuition or whatever was correct! According to that compiled fountain of wisdom - wikipedia:

"Casey is a graduate of Georgetown University.^[3][5] He was raised Roman Catholic, but later became an atheist.^[6][7]