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Don't forget SIZE. Norway is a tiny country, and so the distance between people and government is small. Norway's success is a strong case for localism.
by larsiusprime 12y ago
Don't forget SIZE. Norway is a tiny country, and so the distance between people and government is small.
Norway's success is a strong case for localism.
- zanny 12y agoReading this, I realize that almost everything is a case for localism, since we now have nuclear weapons and international instantaneous communications that mean trying to invade a small country is much less reasonable (unless you are Russia). I mean, that is (in part) why the Greek model failed. Small countries are vulnerable to conquest. But today that is not much of a problem, so I hope the natural social pressure to minimize can overcome the entrenched imperialistic powers that hold a lot of the larger nations together. It just makes more sense to me to, say, have 50 countries and a EU in the US instead of one massively overbearing federal that has authority over a land area competing with continental Europe.