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Phase transition

The idea it will simply cut through these—states, markets, cultures—like butter rather than be made by them to heel in a concrete form with concrete limitations is naive in the extreme.

The naivete here is thinking that states, markets and cultures can “make to heel” a phase transition in the very substrate on which they operate. This is like that if we invented artificial gravity and you said “oh yes but buildings will control it”

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