Amanda Scott
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4 recordings
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first heard Jan 2026
last heard 25 Feb
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And if you even stand there, we can kill you because that's our legal monopoly on violence.
And if you look like you're doing anything else back, then we can also kill you.
And it's pretty explicit now.
Even a year ago, you'd have had trouble having something quite so obvious to define that.
But we've been doing this around the world, we, the white Western nations, for many, many centuries.
And actually, the Romans did it 2,000 years ago, and they were not the inventors of it.
They were just quite good at exporting it around Western Europe.
So...
A monopoly of violence within certain geographic borders.
That's the nation state.
The network state takes that in a new direction.
Tell us a little bit about Balaji and the network state and how it's evolving and why Greenland is critical to the vision of that.
So we need to be clear for people listening who are fanatic that this is CSEA studying.
Also, if anybody's interested, there's a very interesting novel called Venomous Lumpsucker, which looks into seasteads quite in a way that makes them more obvious what they are.
But basically, it's let's not quite take cruise ships, but let's create floating islands instead.
in places that are not owned by anybody else.
It's largely to be free of any kind of regulation and any kind of taxation.
It seems to me it's the obvious philosophical extension of Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged, which is huge.
And even in the days when I was working in computer games companies, everybody read Atlas Shrugged and thought it was a really good thing, except me.
I was like, what?
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