Sterlin Lujan: Cyberstates, Network States, & Digital Parallel Societies
Geopolitics & Empire
Geopolitics & Empire
4.2 • 570 Ratings
🗓️ 13 February 2025
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Sterlin Lujan discusses network states, parallel societies, and the growing post-Westphalian trend and move away from the nation state toward sovereign cyberstates.
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About Sterlin Lujan
Sterlin is the founder and president of Polis Labs, an independent research institute focused on guiding emergent network states to embrace nonzero-sum governance practices. He prioritizes teaching wisdom and restraint in governance to prevent coordination failures from arising.
Sterlin has over a decade of experience as a professional communicator, marketer, and researcher in the blockchain sector. He has worked with and consulted some of the top blockchain and network state organizations, such as bitcoin.com and Logos. Sterlin was a member of the first Network School cohort started by Balaji Srinivasan, and he is the author of the book, “Dignity & Decency: Rhapsodic Musings of a Modern Anarchist.”
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to another edition of Geopolitics and Empire coming to you from Narco Territory, as I like to say, Moralia Michoakhan, at the People's Reset. |
| 0:10.8 | Derek Brose's People's Reset, which just wrapped up. |
| 0:14.0 | I'm here with one of the speakers, Sterlin Lujan, Crypto Anarchist, also author of Dignity and Decency, Repsodic Musings of a Modern Anarchist. How you doing, Sterling? Yeah, brother doing well. Really happy to be here. Fantastic. Life is good. Can't complain. How have you enjoyed the event? Yeah, the event's been great. You know, I've been friends with Derek for a long time. |
| 0:38.3 | I've spoken at a lot of his events over the years. |
| 0:40.3 | And just this, this event, I think we've seen that it's grown. |
| 0:44.3 | There's more people, there's more interest in parallel societies, in intentional communities. |
| 0:48.3 | I think it's amazing. |
| 0:50.3 | I think you're also one of the sponsors, no? |
| 0:51.3 | Yeah, that's correct. |
| 0:52.3 | The organization that I work with, we sponsored it. |
| 0:55.2 | Yeah. |
| 0:56.2 | Second year. |
| 0:57.2 | Logos, yeah? |
| 0:58.2 | Logos, correct. |
| 0:59.2 | Yeah, and this is my third year. |
| 1:00.1 | I almost wasn't going to come, and I'm glad I came. |
| 1:03.8 | And it's just like every time, every year I get better. |
| 1:07.1 | I agree. |
| 1:08.1 | The event. |
| 1:09.1 | And so people know that I focus a lot on world government, technocracy, geopolitics, |
| 1:18.2 | stuff like that. |
| 1:19.4 | And you're a tech guy. |
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