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minus-squareAbsentBird@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-25 months agoThere’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.
minus-squaresamus12345@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·5 months agoYeah, but for the purpose of looking at stable governments in cities, hunter-gather societies aren’t a helpful comparison.
minus-squarekaffiene@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·5 months agoGood points but my question is more about governments that work at the scale of a nation state.
minus-squareAbsentBird@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·5 months agoI 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.
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.
Yeah, but for the purpose of looking at stable governments in cities, hunter-gather societies aren’t a helpful comparison.
Good points but my question is more about governments that work at the scale of a nation state.
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.