The idea of city states came to me via paul saffo from singularity. He said if look at the discourse that's happening the country's literally pulling itself apart And he gave us a couple of really interesting nuggets. One was Everybody in the world knows who the mayor of New York city is Nobody in the world knowledge who the governor of New York state is Even New Yorkers don't know who the governor's The Dalai Lama wanted to visit hollywood and vase visit l.a. But george bush said to him Please don't receive the Dalai Lama. It's causing massive problems with the chinese, right? That tells you that there's a gap that's increasing

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