Bitcoin and The Fall of Nation-States with James Davidson (WiM163)
The "What is Money?" Show
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Yu: It's certainly a quite the bewildering world we're going into. I mean, things just keep changing faster. Even things that we take for granted, like the existence of the nation state, are now being called into question. And i agree that what we've been taught in school as conventional wisdom is the purpose and genesis of the state, it's just not at all true, right? The greek literal means 'topographical feature' - on these little o coast and bri the harbors and indentations put a lot of land close to the water. This has been true since ancient greece. But underlying the ancient greek importance of democracy was a topographical feature
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