The Fortists' Misperception of Reality

Postmoderns think about a world where things can be done on demand and provided without the need for big state apparatus. They see themselves as either before or after feudalism, pre-feudal era of human production. But they are great believers in sort of the diversity of political possibility - if you want to crack up the United States into 10,000 miniature units,. Some of those units will be radically redistributive; others might be black supremacists.

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