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>Muh China
>Muh Russia
>Muh USA
According to the Authors of The Sovereign Individual, all three are decaying corpses which will fade away into obscurity. Their prediction of the world is hyper globalized, but one where world dominating military strength is impossible, one where individuals go where they are treated best. All due to their concept of Megapolitics. I will expand on this, but first some history. Commonly accepted history tells of these ages:
>Hunter gatherer
>agricultural
>industrial
The Authors claim we are currently transitioning out of the industrial age towards a new age which they call the information age.
Interestingly, each age is shorter than the last in what resembles a parabolic curve. While the full transition from the hunter gatherer age to the agricultural age took thousands of years, it only took hundreds of years from the agricultural age to the industrial age. And now, it will only be a matter of decades to fully transition into the Information age. This parabolic change can be linked to the parabolic advancement of tech, of which micro-processing tech is currently at the forefront, launching us into the information age and creating societal change at a brain melting pace.
This pattern of tech creating societal change is called Megapolitics. Climate and microbes also force societal change, but lets focus on tech. As tech changes, the returns of violence change. For example, in the nomadic hunter gatherer age there was no need for military, police, or roaming bands of plunderers because no one had possessions or territory. But with the invention of agriculture, suddenly there was a much higher return to violence. There were things to plunder, such as the harvests, the tools, the arable land, the villages. And so there was a need for government, authority, and military force for protection. This is Megapolitics. And they are rapidly changing.
Looking forward to read more.