4 January

Brexit and Trump’s America First I think are actually very valuable. It’s a real-world test of an assumption - the assumption that countries exist in isolation first, and then join together with other countries to form the ‘international’ community. In reality they’re going to find, I’m sure, that they have it completely backwards. Countries only existed *after* empires had already established vast connections between different places. Without those connections, the country ceases to exist. This old Empire ad says the same thing.