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This video is guest narrated by Clifton Duncan.

Follow the link in the pinned comment to his podcast, which delves into major

issues of our modern era at the tumultuous intersection of art, culture, and society.

The world would be most happily governed if it consisted not of a few aggregations with their accompaniments

of despotism and tyrannic rule, but of a society of small states.

Should the states and provinces of nations separate and become politically autonomous?

Should counties, cities, and communities do the same? What is the

optimal size of a political unit? In this video, we're going to explore why the nation-states

that populate the world are too big, and why decentralization, not voting different politicians into power,

is the cure to many of the social and political problems that ail us.

In his book The Breakdown of Nations, the 20th century economist and political scientist Leopold

Core wrote,

The solution of the problems confronting the world as a whole

does not seem to lie in the creation of still bigger social units

and still vaster governments, whose formation is now attempted

with such unimaginative phonaticism by our statesmen.

It seems to lie in the elimination of those overgrown organisms that go by the name of great powers,

and in the restoration of the healthy system of small and easily manageable states such as characterized earlier ages.

The modern nation-state, encompassing vast land areas and millions upon millions of people,

was born in Europe in the mid-17th century, and this form of political organization is a historical

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