Status Updates From The Network State: How To S...

Well we hit upon something kinda interesting. This idea that the Network is a third leviathan in the Hobbsian sense of the word. That what contstrains humanity's darker impulses is a crypto network. A mix of the freedom of anonymity, mob rule and sheer cryptography will render a new set of laws. But its all very fuzzy on how this suplants the State.

I'm curious what or if he's going to make a point. Ranting about the trajectories of history only to settle on the idea that, yes, things in the past caused the conditions that we live in now?

You don't need chapters on the various types of recorded history to wrap ones mind around that.