{"id":85250,"date":"2016-01-14T05:25:36","date_gmt":"2016-01-14T13:25:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=85250"},"modified":"2016-01-14T05:33:17","modified_gmt":"2016-01-14T13:33:17","slug":"how-does-the-world-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=85250","title":{"rendered":"How Does The World Work?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Steve Sailer writes<\/a>: The world is organized into 200 separate territorial states, each with armed men employed by its government. It\u2019s interesting to speculate about other ways to organize the world, but it\u2019s not clear that there are other ways to do it. (It\u2019s especially not clear that there are better ways to do it.)<\/p>\n

Or consider the single most extraordinary exercise of power of 2015: the German government\u2019s decision to invite a million Muslim mob into Europe. There was a lot of flapdoodle extruded about how Angela Merkel was exemplifying \u201cEuropean values\u201d and the like. But the German Chancellor wasn\u2019t actually acting through the European Union or in concert with other European governments. Instead, she acted with Bismarckian impudence as the head of the national government with the biggest GDP in Europe. She gave an order, one that violated some EU rules by the way, and it got carried out, because that\u2019s what national governments do.<\/p>\n

While some leading figures of the American deep state increasingly tend to talk as if they represent the entire planet, their power is grounded in armed men paid for by American taxpayers, men who mostly believe that patriotic stuff about how they are defending America.<\/p>\n

And that\u2019s about as good a solution for the inevitability of the state as resting on armed men as we\u2019ve come up with.<\/p>\n

* You know, maybe in the future, billionaires like Bill Gates, Carlos Slim, Mark Zuckerberg will put generals on their payrolls. During the waning years of the Roman Republic, Roman legions felt more loyalty to individual generals than to Roman state institutions. Maybe that will happen again in the future?<\/p>\n

* I shared this with Forbes writer and open borders advocate Frances Coppola on Twitter. Here’s how it went:<\/p>\n

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Typical, parochial American shares @DouthatNYT<\/a>'s latest with @Frances_Coppola<\/a>. pic.twitter.com\/fq2nDVRQAn<\/a><\/p>\n

— David Pinsen (@dpinsen) January 14, 2016<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n