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Let's think about this once more : "global postmodern nihilistic meta-state" ouch ! stF

• api 12y ago
  Straining to describe something for which there isn't a good word. We have socialism, capitalism, etc. but no good term for this.
  • neltnerb 12y ago
    The Mars trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson used the description "transnational" and "metanational" to describe the corporations that have arisen as nearly state-actors in power and influence. Today Goldman-Sachs and BP (among many others) probably significantly exceed the international influence of many countries. Just a matter of waiting for them to coalesce into entities big enough to stop pretending to be under any kind of control and it'll be a perfect analogy...