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RE: Books for Better Creativity 02, Part 5: Lessons & Insights from "The Sovereign Individual” Ch. 9, 10, & 11 + Final Thoughts
Interesting idea to get rid of state government... That is one idea that goes towards the central question this book left me with, namely: "How do we transition from a world of massive government towards one of small government?"
It's a really hard question because just "ripping the bandaid off" would leave a lot of people dead - if you can't get medical insurance and nobody will treat your cancer, for one example.
But in the long run it really does seem unsustainable, especially through the lens of this book. Like you said, the info age is helping to make some things efficient by reducing commutes to work - but that might not be enough to create a major change in how our society runs.
I have not heard about Cyberia - what's the book about?
Cyberia was written around mid-90’s. Around the beginning when the internet was still not really a thing. Rushkoff covered what he saw as the beginnings of cyber-culture, and covers post-humanism, global electronic village, drugs and designing reality, technoshamanism, and memes as the weapons of cyber-conflict.
Highly recommend it, although I don’t know how well it would read over twenty years later... although it would be fascinating to see how much of Rushkoff’s predictions came true (from memory of them, most of them have).