The concept of country has been out of date for a long time. What does that have to do with reality? Sometimes I find it weird that we get these kind of leading idealistic questions, but they don’t have anything to do with reality. When will people get it through their thick skulls that the ideas in their heads don’t change reality, except very marginally. Reality is what it is.
People act as if local governments and territory disputes matter. They act like they are willing to fight over land no matter what anyone else thinks.
Countries are a kind of stupid idea, but that doesn’t matter. It matters not what I think of countries. People will continue to act the way they act. So they create these fictional political structures. And since that’s the reality on the ground, we must work with it.
I think we need smaller structures, not larger structures. We need governments that are too small to raise armies. Lots of them. We need to outlaw cooperation for military purposes. We need to make every country build using a different measurement system, so there can be no standardization between countries and no one can use anyone else’s weapons. Or at least not build any new parts for weapons built somewhere else.
Sigh. No Boeing. No Caterpillar. No giant corporations the world over. No economies of scale. Yep. I’m dreaming. But countries really aren’t that great an idea.