And, it seems that people are less willing to die for their government’s ambitions, as Stranger said.
Is it appropriate to speculate about there being a point in time where there are no governments then?
what confrontation wilderness?
all’s i’m saying is you don’t know, either way.[:)]
let’s not get stuck on this
no please let’s not.
bloom do you have anything to interject into the OP? no need to derail a thread, ok.
Eh not really birdman.
Yep, pretty much. People would say “how could they have been so foolish as to allow tyrants to rule over them and think it’s legitimate?” just like we say about the serfs throughout history. It seems simpler in retrospect.
I like Grayson Lilburne’s schema of history.
Relax, it’s just the internet.
Relax, it’s just the internet.
I know, I thought it was funny, what’s the problem?
people do not die for states… they die for ideas.
That’s what states are. If I drive up to the Canada US border, there isn’t some big, black dashed line, with all of the Earth orange on one side, and purple on the other, just some armed individuals playing pretend.
People will desperately try to figure out how could states could have emerged once they are gone. After a decent theory is discovered, I doubt any one will take more than a cursory interest in the statist era. It will be considered general culture to know the basics just as one is supposed to know something about Greek civilization and who was Alexander the Great. A major exception could be and strategy games, which will invariably have one as a Head of State (and will provide most with all they’ll ever know on what a state used to be). There’s just no fun at all when playing it market style.
Who says the statist era will ever be ‘looked back’ on?
I for one, cant see any hope of this.
“How will the statist era be looked back on in the future?”
As if we were a bunch of savages, with a few exceptions. The myths, illusions, fallacies and lies that permeate the majority of society are mind boggling.
Well for one nobody is going to call it ‘the statist era’. We don’t go around calling Antiquity the slavery era either.
It is going to be seen as a cool thing to study, but not uncritically.
I suspect there is still a whole dimension of market style games yet undiscovered.
You could well be right. I myself would find it very interesting to see a PDA-strategy-action game. Perhaps a guerilla band financing its activities through protection fees would be a cool scenario for some FPS with strategy elements. And than of course, the Rothbardian scenario of the King who before dissolving the state turns every piece of land to himself, and than tries desperately not to make deficits in order to avoid selling land over the next decade, that too would be a nice grand-strategy scenario. I just think that states will never loose that “good old days” feeling in games.