Not much to criticize in this thesis. Contains nothing new or original. Just a rehash presented as insightful. Author claims Liberalism lasted until 2019. Alth

Not much to criticize in this thesis. Contains nothing new or original. Just a rehash presented as insightful. Author claims Liberalism lasted until 2019. Although hyperglobalization is mentioned, author does not acknowledge Neoliberalism (aka Thatcherism & Reaganomics, roughly coinciding with "capitalism" defeat of "communism"). Modern Liberalism (post WWII) was the West's response to nationalism; an effort to curtail the endless wars. Today we have new challenges. Of course we need new arrangements. What could that look like? Like this OC, I have zero idea what's coming next. As in no clue. Unlike this OC, I do have hope and optimism. That said, I keep chewing on two ideas. Of all the dystopian novels I've read, too many to list, I most believe the social arrangements imagined in Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower. A cautionary tale. Basically how corporations pivot to become the new feudal lords, no different than the robber baron's company towns. How taking a job is choosing serfdom. What it may be like to opt out, to create something new, like Butler's protagonist does. What we might call "mutual aid society". Of all the notions for a successor to representative democracy, the most exciting to me is "phyles" from Neal Stepheson's The Diamond Age. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Diamond_Age#Phyles https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Diamond_Age#Phyles How each social movement is decoupled from geography, strives to be self consistent, and has to negotiate intra-social arrangements. I haven't yet read Robinson's The Ministry for the Future. It might have some notions worth considering. I don't recall ever reading sci-fi treatments of possible left-libertarian (aka anarchist) social arrangements. It recently occurred to me to seek out stories about pirates (from their own point of view) and the Iroquois (and adjacent) from before contact with Europe.