HeavenlyPossum on Nostr: If you look straight down at a political map of the world, you of course see states ...

If you look straight down at a political map of the world, you of course see states crammed together like puzzle pieces, filling every inch of the world. It’s easy to conclude from this mundane and omnipresent depiction that the world really does consist of a patchwork of competing national teams.

But if you tilt that map ever so slightly, you’ll see that those states are really just a very thin layer hovering above a borderless world of all different kinds of people, most of them toiling endlessly to support the goals and interests of those states—that superstructure—floating just above, but separate from, the people.

It’s a fun trick you should try it sometime.