• AbsentBird@lemm.ee
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    4 months ago

    There’s hunter-gatherer tribes that have been more or less stable for over a thousand years. It’s said that the Nez Perce have lived on the Columbia River for 11,500 years.

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      4 months ago

      Yeah, but for the purpose of looking at stable governments in cities, hunter-gather societies aren’t a helpful comparison.

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      4 months ago

      Good points but my question is more about governments that work at the scale of a nation state.

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        I think it’s possible that nation states are inherently unstable. An improvement on monarchy, but still vulnerable to oligarchy.

        I’m not sure what the future holds, or what comes next, but I suspect that federation will play an important role.