To me, the most interesting discussion that this week's reading brought up was the notion that the geopolitical creation of nations is now obsolete and the city-state is the new geopolitical unit of relevance. I am not particularly impressed with the modern nation state; colonial boundaries, war, division of cultures/families/people due to boarders created by war or colonization. However, to replace the nation state for the city state based on capitalist forces seems like a spectacular way to create groups of people and geographical reasons who a ignored losers in the global capitalist economy.
When it comes to geopolitical relevance urban and rural need to be reasonably balance, even if their populations are not. I believe that it is easy for city folk (I count myself as one) to think that the world revolves around the city, but million of people who don't have any access to food (produced in rural areas) are useless.
That's all for now.
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