Nations Are Just Imagined Communities | Bangkok
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0:00A: Indonesia before that, right? It’s a collection of different islands that were under Dutch rule, right? But they picked the language, they crafted a new national identity, and in some ways that’s been very valuable because it’s prevented places that were often very diverse from dissolving and fighting and killing each other, right? But now we’re also running into like a lot of the limitations of that, right? And I think part of the challenge that if you want to think about a future where we can have a global counterpower, right, to East-West digital We’re going to have to solve some of these problems that nation states solve, but better. How do you forge new relationships and kinships? And maybe it’s around values of Ethereum or values of crypto or something like that. But how do you do it in a way that appeals to my grandma? And that’s part of the challenge that I think we’re going to have to look
