The Internet is to America what America was to Britain

so, like, you know, my view is the Internet is to America, but America was to Britain.

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so, like, you know, my view is the Internet is to America, but America was to Britain. It is like the version three point o. And because the early, Americans actually considered themselves, as you know, British. Right? All the folkways and stuff came from Britain. And the American War of Independence is essentially a civil war. Yeah. Exactly. That's right. So they they had a people and they had a, they had a land, but they didn't have a government. Right? Because the government was in London. Right? And when they when they had all three, they became Americans. They they had a sense of self. And I think with the Internet, we have actually a lot of tribes that actually have a people and a government, but not land. And the reason they have a government is they have a blockchain.

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Balaji draws a fascinating historical parallel between the American Revolution and today's internet tribes. He argues that just as early Americans had people and land but lacked government (which was in London), today's internet communities have people and governance (through blockchain) but lack physical territory.

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This is a compelling historical framework that reframes how we think about digital communities and governance in the blockchain era.

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