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The polis; an autonomous, self-governing form of city state, invented around 800 BC.

Which wasn't shy about competition or large-scale conflict (like the Peloponnesian War).

The equations of power have changed. Two contradictory things are happening inequality grows while information asymmetry reduces.

Something is going to break. And we generally wake up and fix thing only after things break.

I say another 5-10 manning/snowden type events before we transition from the united states of america to the the united states of earth.