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[2011-05-24 21:43:16 +0000 UTC]
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hey, I have a few questions? do you watch IsaacΒ Arthur? and will you do world maps for A2, B1, B2, C2, C3, and D3 from your 12 Georgia map? whats the relationship AfricanΒ AmericansΒ to the AfricansΒ union in your 2150 timeline?
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Something you might find interesting- here in Ireland we're going to hold a referendum on extending voting rights (for the presidential election) to NI and Irish citizenship overseas. And considering that the children of Irish citizens are entitled to Irish citizenship (even if they've never been to Ireland).
This would vastly effect future voting results. For example with our STV voting system Labour has held the last three presidencies, but with the North in on it that could have almost totally guaranteed the Presidency to Sinn Fein's Martin McGuiness. Considering that the arrival of Irish migrants home helped to repeal the 8th then guaranteeing them all a say could also effect future results.
Figured you'd find this interesting since it's pretty much creating a sort of Irish Universal Identity, that even if you're out of the country you've still a strong say in it. Would be interesting to see if others catch on to the idea.
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hello sir,Β
do you have time to answer a question I have involving Language structure and general appearance?
thanks for your time
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do you have a sea leve rise basemap that you used for Earth 2150 with the present day boundaries?
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Question: What's the fate of Pure Land Buddhism in the world of Earth 2150? It's actually surprising to me that Zen Buddhism, with its difficult and strict practices, and Tibetan Buddhism, with its arcane and strange rituals and pantheons, have become so relatively popular in Europe and America. Meanwhile, huge Pure Land sects like Shin Buddhism are almost unknown among Westerners, despite the relative simplicity of their soteriology, which even appears pretty similar to Protestant Christianity. Has this changed in 2150, or are Pure Land followers still limited to East Asia?
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What are your [public] thoughts on the overarching controversy of Russia influencing the election? I wonder if it's revenge for Yeltsin...
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What kind of new alphabets and scripts are made in your future TL?
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Thanks for the birthday wishes guys! Fun fact though my birthday is actually August 18th. I put down the wrong date when I joined DA and have yet to fix it to this day.
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Do you feel China's ascension to superpower status is inevitable?
If you were president, what steps would you be taking to maintaim American hegemony?
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China already is a superpower. The era of our uncontested hegemony ended back in 2010 when China maneuvered fot our exclusion from the developing world panel on economics and climate change and succededed, in my humble opinion.
If I were President my main goals would be towards maintaining democratic systems around the world where they are most vulnerable, such as in the developing world. While I can admire the Communist Party's work in making China a modern nation after pulling it from the brink of a century of national humiliation and war I don't think we should be inactive and send a message that one party states are the way forward for the developing world. This I think has been one of the main disasters of American foreign policy for the past 8 years. We've stood by the sidelines while companies and state organs from Asia, not just China but also some of the seedier parts of India, Japan, and Korea, have shaped the foreign policy and domestic politics of Africa, Latin America, and Central Asia. This has had a disastrous impact on democratic institutions, media, freedom of assembly, and so on and will continue to do so if inaction continues, and to be honest as both Trump and Clinton focus on hawkishness, imaginary trade wars, and the Persian Gulf and Pacific rather than the developing world I do think that inaction will continue.
As President to me the preservation of the Democratic way is the preservation of the American way, especially since states like China are given more leeway when global democratic institutions are weak and so they can grease the wheels in their favor with money, propaganda, nationalism and bureacracy.
We can't expect a state like China to become democratic and play by our rules nor should we demand them to as they are an independent country, but we can make it difficult for them to force us to play by their rules which they know better than us, and we do that by maintaining a global system that has democracy as the foundation.
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i'd like to make a joke that a two-party system doesn't seems exactly better (esp a two party system that really is one party)
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I started reading a new book on geopolitics, Connectography. It focuses on the geopolitical influence of infrastructure connections and supply chains, and reminds me somewhat of your scenario. Give it a look if it sounds interesting.
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Aha! I actually follow Parag KhannaΒ on Facebook so i'm pretty aware of his work, but thank you for the suggestion. I'm currently still working my way through "Capital in the 21st Century", but I will make sure to give it a read when i'm done.
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So not necessarily related to your 2150 timeline (unless you want it to be).
Where do you think the growing influence of cities as opposed to individual states will eventually take us?Β
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So, like everything I think the effects with be multiple and will depend a lot on geography and culture. In some cases, like parts of Africa, I very much expect large cities will effectively become metropoles containing the vast majority of the population, and the bordering areas will, over time, begin to take on the manners of colonies and resource zones rather than traditional provinces and subdivisions, however for Africa, lacking Westphalian institutions, this sort of transition will be much easier than in other places. In the West, and especially in parts of Europe and the USA, I think the growth of cities will only further enflame current social divisions between the rural and urban classes, and may in some cases lead to actual war. Asia has the demographics to create a balance between the urban and the rural, or at least break from wholly coastally dominated cities and so they ironically might be able to maintain forms of provincial statecraft the most similar to today.
I do think it will weaken a lot of our preconceived notions of the state, and indeed the westphalian period of the clear and obvious national border will likely come to an end, but geography combined with cultural similarities between populations and the bureaucracies needed to maintain said cities will mean that the state will survive, though as time goes states will likely begin to overlap and become more ideas based on inertia and heritage rather than what we now call states.
I personally think that the era of cities will, in the long term, be marked as a middle period between the era of states-as-land and states-as-cultural-allegiance as they will share similarities to both systems and will allow for the wearing down of borders and the distribution of peoples needed to transition to the idea of states as cultural complexes rather than as arbitrary lines.
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Going off of that final prediction, how would one make a map of a "state-as-cultural-allegiance" world? With borders effectively meaningless, would the traditional world map style of display be equally meaningless? Or is there some way around that issue that you know of.
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I've spent some time tackling this question and to be honest, i'm not quite sure myself. I think it is certainly possible that even in a world ruled largely by cultural associations that sheer geography and population sizes will still give up relatively representable borders. I've currently been experimenting with an idea of showing a world map in which borders are drawn by a combination of dominant culture and the kind of state-type coterminous with a culture. Frex a state might have a focus on civic, national, ethnic, religious, or linguistic culture in particular and this combined with both dividing cultures up based upon their roots or similarities or relations alongside the borders of economic and social infrastructure could get us somewhat closeΒ to a "culture world map" so to speak.
So we'd have a map dominated by various colors based upon accepted cultural "roots" (say Chinese, Indian, Iranian, Altaic, Ethiopic, so on, though the future may have different ideas on what should be considered roots), and inside those "roots"Β shaded subdivisions showing the various culture-states within and different border types (maybe dark line, dotted, striped) showing the way the state representsΒ its culture or what aspect/part of its culture is most important to the state (frex a blood and soil state could have a dashed border whereas an ethnolinguistic state could have a dotted border). Then red lines or such could be put around very large city structures to denote those as being areas with such a variety of cultural states in an area that it can't be shown on just a world map. Perhaps there could be a "ring" of sub boxes around the main map showing the culture states of the various cities with minimaps, sort of like how some world maps today have a ring with all the world flags. Such a map would only show the dominant culture states in an area and would likely miss loads of overlap and enclaves and such, but world maps are more means for public consumption anyways to give relatively "simple" models of the world structure rather than showing what is "really" there.
Similarly one way to get around this is to have cultures create world maps that show just the distribution of their own state, perhaps as a separate map directly underneath the standard main world map.
This is just a rough idea i've been trying to work with, especially since cartography and technology are very intertwined, perhaps more than some other arts, and so there may be alien ways of showing global politics and organization that are natural to the people of the future, similar to how things like Google Maps make sense to us but would largely confound a 19th century lay-person.
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I somehow keep forgetting this area and people keep wishing me well only to get silence and now I feel like a dick. Apologies wonderful people, I'll make sure not to miss this place again.
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You are anything but a dick with how generously you conduct yourself on this site.
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Well, thank you very much for that. I hope I continue to not be a dick for all y'all.
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So this might be a little too specific, but could you describe how the average American lives in 2150? Major cities, likely employment, primary worries and goals, free time activities, etc
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Oh jeez, that is a bit parochial and specific even for my work here. However I'd be glad to consult my notes and stuff, because I know I've written something on this, being American and all, and get back to you with a PM. If that is fine by you of course.
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