The Network State: How To Start A New Country

Quickstart
Preamble
The Network State in One Sentence
The Network State in One Image
The Network State in One Thousand Words
The Network State in One Essay
How to Start a New Country
1. Election
2. Revolution
3. War
4. Micronations
5. Seasteading
6. Space
7. Network States
Minimum Necessary Innovation
What Counts as a New Country?
Most Countries are Small Countries
History as Trajectory
Prologue
Why History is Crucial
Why History is Crucial for Startup Societies
Why Startup Societies Aren't Solely About Technology
Applied History for Startup Societies
Microhistory and Macrohistory
History as a Cryptic Epic of Twisting Trajectories
Microhistory is the History of Reproducible Systems
Macrohistory is the History of Non-Reproducible Systems
Bitcoin's Blockchain Is a Technology for Robust Macrohistory
The Bitcoin Blockchain Can Record Non-Bitcoin Events
Blockchains Can Record the History of an Economy and Society
Cryptohistory is Cryptographically Verifiable Macrohistory
Political Power and Technological Truth
Political Power as the Driving Force of History
Technological Truth as the Driving Force of History
A Collision of Political Power and Technological Truth
A Definition of Political and Technological Truths
A Balance of Political Power and Technological Truth
God, State, Network
What is the Most Powerful Force in the World?
Rubber Hoses Don't Scale
The Network is the Next Leviathan
Network > State: Trump's Deplatforming
The State is Still A Leviathan
Thesis, Antithesis, Synthesis
Synthesis: The Network/God
Synthesis: The Network/State
Positive Syntheses: BTC, Web3, Efficiency
Negative Syntheses: USG, CCP, Monopoly
Synthesis: God, State, and Network
New Leviathan, New States
People of God, People of the State, People of the Network
American Tribes and Their Leviathans
Blue Tribe: Left-Authoritarians, Left-Libertarians
Red Tribe: Secular Nationalists, Internationalist Capitalists
The Realignment
Tech vs Media, aka PC vs PC
The Conflict: Technological Progressives vs Technological Conservatives
The Enormous State, not the Entrepreneurial State
The Base-Rater as a Flat-Curver
If the News is Fake, Imagine History
Distortion of the Present
Patterns of Information Distortion
The Network Delivered Actual Freedom of Speech
The Establishment Launched the Counter-Decentralization
Distortion of the Past
Jurassic Ballpark
Further Reading
Fragmentation, Frontier, Fourth Turning, Future Is Our Past
The Fragmentation Thesis
The Frontier Thesis
The Fourth Turning Thesis
The Future Is Our Past Thesis
Left is the New Right is the New Left
Why Discuss Left and Right at All?
Reunifying Technological and Moral Progress
Moral Progress is Moral Innovation is Moral Inversion
Political Arbitrage and Financial Arbitrage
The Market for Revolutionaries
Startup Societies Reunify Technological and Moral Progress
Two Ideologies
The Spatial Theory of Voting
Fights Create Factions
Left and Right as Temporary Tactics, Not Constant Classes
Frontiers Mitigate Factions
Two Ghosts, Different Hosts
My Left is Your Right
Three Cycles
The Left Cycle
The Right Cycle
The Libertarian Cycle
The Unified Cycle
New Boss: Not Exactly The Same As The Old Boss
Holy War Wins Wars
Four Flippenings
The Proletarian Flippening
The American Flippening
The Global Flippening
The Historical Flippenings
The One Commandment
Communities are Causes First, Companies Second
The Concept of a Parallel Society
Examples of Parallel Societies: Digital Network Unions
Renewal Culture: the Cancel-Proof Society
Examples of Parallel Societies: Physical Network Archipelagos
Keto Kosher: the Sugar-free Society
Digital Sabbath: the Partially Offline Society
Examples of Parallel Societies: Recognized Network States
Your Body, Your Choice: the post-FDA Society
Analysis of Parallel Societies
Why Not More Than One Commandment?
What About Older Doctrines?
Parallel Systems Catalyze Peaceful Reform
Parallel Systems Once Required Contiguous Land, Now They Don't
Four Points on One Commandments
The Tripolar Moment
NYT, CCP, BTC
The Dated and the Timeless
A Bipolar America and a Tripolar Triangle
Moral Power, Martial Power, Money Power
Moral State, Martial State, Money State
Moral Network, Martial Network, Money Network
NYT: The Moral Network
CCP: The Martial Network
BTC: The Money Network
Overlaps and Exceptions
Submission, Sympathy, Sovereignty
Extremes and Counter-Extremes Are Undesirable
A Recentralized Center
Conflicts and Alliances
One Pole Against Another
Two Poles vs the Third
Intrapolar Conflicts
The Road To Recentralization
Decentralization, Recentralization
The Possible Futures
Analytical Axes and Scenario Analyses
Strong Form and Weak Form Models of the Future
Building the Future Rather than Defaulting Into It
Sociopolitical Axes
International Indians
Transhumanism Versus Anarcho-Primitivism
The Identity Stack
Example: Twitter Bios
Technoeconomic Axes
The Internet Increases Variance
BlueAnon, QAnon, SatoshiAnon
Social Media is American Glasnost, Cryptocurrency is American Perestroika
The 100-Year Information Tsunami
Naturally Physical to Natively Digital
Three Phase Transition
Truly Digital News: Dashboards, On-Chain Event Feeds
Remote Work to Remote Life
From Printing to Materializing
The Productivity Mystery
Linguistic Borders of the Internet
Network Defects
Foreseeable Futures
AR Glasses Bridge Physical and Digital Worlds
Experimental Macroeconomics
American Anarchy, Chinese Control, International Intermediate
American Anarchy
Prosperity, Tyranny, or Anarchy?
Maximalist vs Woke
How America Builds Towards Conflict
A War for Minds, Not Lands
Maximalist vs Woke Rotates Left and Right
Who Wins?
Wars Aren't Romantic
Chinese Control
Attempted Coup Leads to Total Control
China Blocks the Exits
The Path to Chinese Control
China Caveat
International Intermediate
Victory Conditions and Surprise Endings
The Victory Conditions
The ``Base Rate Fallacy'' Fallacy
China Can Make a Pencil
The Surprise Endings
Duopoly of Digital Despotism
Bitcoin Ends Human War, but not Robot War
Towards a Recentralized Center
In Defense of Recentralization
From Nation States to Network States
Why Now?
On Nation States
What is a Nation State?
What is the Nation State System?
Assumptions of the Nation State System
The Nation State as a Term
Micronations and Multinations
0-nation, 1-nation, N-nations
What is a Nation?
A Definitional Approach
An Empirical Approach
A Philosophical Approach
What is a State?
The Definitional Approachw
The Comparative Approach
The Pragmatic Approach
The Philosophical Approach
Statecraft Strategies and Programming Paradigms
What does a Nation State look like on a Map?
How were Modern Nation States Founded?
The Historical Angle
The Patronage Angle
The Military Angle
Why were Nation States Founded?
How does a Nation State Expand and Contract?
How did States Influence Nations, and Vice Versa?
What is not a Nation State?
What Technological Developments underpin the Modern Nation State System?
On Network States
What is a Network State?
The Definition
Breaking the Definition
What is the Network State System?
Assumption: Digital Primary, Physical Secondary
Assumption: The State Becomes An Admin Dashboard
Assumption: Divide Networks Rather than Land
Assumption: Consent and Cryptography Constrain
The Network State as a Term
Micronetworks and Multinetworks
Startups create Networks, but Nations create States
Startups create Networks, but Startups aren't States
Startups create Centralized Networks, but Chains create Decentralized Networks
Only Decentralized Networks can give rise to Network States
0-network, 1-network, N-networks
What is a (National) Network?
A Verbal Description
A Computational Approach
What does a Network State look like on a Map?
The Physical Map
The Digital Map
Example: Physically Proximal, Digitally Divergent
How is a Network State Founded?
Startup Societies
Parallel Societies
The Network Union
The New Tokenomics is Nation Formation
Path to the Network State
The Bootstrap Recognizer
Digital Civil Society
Recognize Why We Need Recognition
Why Would we Found a Network State?
Network States for the Technological Innovator
Network States for the Political Progressive
How does a Network State Expand and Contract?
What is not a Network State?
What Technological Developments enable Network States?
Appendix
Acknowledgments