Right. It's not the paper or stone tablets that ever made any changes. It was the people willing to do it in the real world. So the point is that blockchains do

Right. It's not the paper or stone tablets that ever made any changes. It was the people willing to do it in the real world. So the point is that blockchains don't open up any new possibilities that weren't there before. People always could've done whatever they were willing to do. Blockchains may have some benefits, but it's not as if people starting independent states was impossible before them.