I believe Carlin's point generally holds in light of http://www.urbanarchipelago.com/ http://www.urbanarchipelago.com/: "It's the cities, Stupid." Look at Fac

I believe Carlin's point generally holds in light of http://www.urbanarchipelago.com/ http://www.urbanarchipelago.com/: "It's the cities, Stupid." Look at Facebook, for instance. I'm seeing splinter social networks that generally rip off its UI so they can develop their special interest via their particular domain name. Let's look at a pessimistic utopia where Developer == Plumber: everything eventually becomes decentralized because of the dividing and conquering of the digital laborer. In an optimistic utopia where Developer == Artisan: everything eventually becomes decentralized because each small team or developer group manages some autonomous function of digital society. None of this national stuff really matters unless we're talking about a Nation-state divided. In which cases, we're talking the worst case scenario, and any pretense that rational debate will absolve these architectural problems of "the State" fails to acknowledge the already unfit architecture of the State, wherein direct action is necessary. 'The unfitness of the object may cause one to overlook the unfitness of the means.'