I have to agree, the key question here is where would the power go if nation states give it away. I can relate to the candidness in the article, but there is an

I have to agree, the key question here is where would the power go if nation states give it away. I can relate to the candidness in the article, but there is an equal amount of naivety. It's not because nation states exist that nations tend to fight for power, it's because we individually and collectively think about power in a certain way. As long as our main struggle is for power, whether by money or force, and as long as we see democracy as a process of giving our powers away to concentrate it, then nation states will reflect that reality of human thinking. In that respect nations are still useful to localise the blast impact of our collective stupidity. Globalisation today has nothing to do with economic wisdom and everything to do with power concentration.