i'm developing a model to explain why what you call a westphalian nation-state seems to be the most successful unit of identity and monopoly of violence. still quite raw.
conjecture:
technology enables larger psychofauna (from castes in chiefdoms -> sultanates based on literate islam -> imagined communities via newspapers and maps)
larger psychofauna enable larger shelling points, which enable greater economies of scale of normies paying for the sociopath service of law and the cost of risk of power (thus cheaper per capita)
my old free enterprise morality blinded me from seeing the necessary economy of power
the west was the first to escape the inherent limitations of the sizes of societies based on primitive psychofauna due to its uncapped production of knowledge, due to its epistemology of truth, based ultimately on the radical equality of all men and women (gal 3:28), which stemmed from unveiling the scapegoat mechanism by judeochristian revelation
i'm developing a model to explain why what you call a westphalian nation-state seems to be the most successful unit of identity and monopoly of violence. still quite raw.
conjecture:
technology enables larger psychofauna (from castes in chiefdoms -> sultanates based on literate islam -> imagined communities via newspapers and maps)
larger psychofauna enable larger shelling points, which enable greater economies of scale of normies paying for the sociopath service of law and the cost of risk of power (thus cheaper per capita)
my old free enterprise morality blinded me from seeing the necessary economy of power
the west was the first to escape the inherent limitations of the sizes of societies based on primitive psychofauna due to its uncapped production of knowledge, due to its epistemology of truth, based ultimately on the radical equality of all men and women (gal 3:28), which stemmed from unveiling the scapegoat mechanism by judeochristian revelation