@marwan1337

Anyone who believes that what happened to school in Malaysia has any kind of long-term impact on the development of network states (or some new apex societal structure akin to them) has no clue what network states actually are. Balaji’s definition and ideas have popularized 1) that modern technology makes it possible to build new kinds of supranational coordinated entities, and 2) a specific but probably intentionally narrow idea of how such an entity *could* begin and evolve. However, most people who encountered this idea placed much more focus on 2 than on 1. Whether people like it or not, it’s not just “the west is declining”, but nation states in general are losing cultural and ideological (and soon more types) of influence because of modern technological developments. By its nature, this technology, will eventually enable *some* kind of post-nation state world. But Balaji’s implementation is only one way to go about it. (Continued)

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