The Rise of the City State

[doodle]

Take heart libertarians...this might have legs.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/aeon.co/a ... -upon-usp

Nation-states came late to history, and there’s plenty of evidence to suggest they won’t make it to the end of the century

[Xan]

Maybe it's meant to be this?
https://aeon.co/essays/the-end-of-a-wor ... be-upon-us

[Kriegsspiel]

I suspect that for there to be even more city-states than there are now, the world needs to remain frozen in the Glacio Americana. Otherwise regional powers would subsume those little fellas.

[Kriegsspiel]

Yes, when cities defund their police, they create even more cities. See the current Buckhead/Atlanta situation.