K: ok, glad to see some attempt at a positive viewpoint…
Now, with technology one can increase the manageability of a country…
if you follow history and technology ( a very, very interesting course could
come out of that one) you see with the rise of technology, the telephone for
example, you can increase the ability to manage a country…
as far as being the largest practical unit that can function independently,
as technology increases, we can increase that greatly…
think about it… it really isn’t any different from a technical standpoint,
whether the country has one million people or billions… it just takes
a little longer to process the information…
the most interesting point you brought up is the one about
is about culture and customs… it has been the interchange between
cultures and customs that have created the greatest change…
one small example, my wife and I was in London last may, year ago,
and one of the dishes that was most heavily advertised was
chicken tikka masala, in fact it was considered the most “English”
of dishes… as we all know, tikka masala is from India…
travel around a city, any city in the US and you will see
restaurant, many different types of restaurants, Indian,
Chinese, Japanese, Mexican, French, Italian…
Thai…ummmmmmmm, anyway, which culture and customs are
we protecting when we go out to eat at these various restaurants?
you seem to think that cultural is some static thing, it isn’t,
it changes and adapts and modifies all the time… there is no
such thing as native culture and custom especially in a country
like the U.S… we are a country of immigrants and those
immigrants brought their own culture and customs to the U.S
and we have adapted and modified that culture and customs
into our own thing… like Chicken Tikka Masala being the
most important dish in England…is that the native culture and
customs you are trying to protect?
Kropotkin