> Also, bad communities fail. They should be allowed to fail.
Are there circumstances under which nation states could/should be seen as 'communities', I wonder.
And, what would be some sensible ways of detecting and handling failure at such scale.
Broadly agree. I'm probably too upset to write about the local elites with anything bearing even a passing resemblance to objectivity, but an outbreak of incompetence is the overall impression.
> sensible ways of detecting and handling failure at such scale
War and revolution. 'Burn it down and start from scratch' is an extreme path to fix a failing country. Historically, the people that rebuild are rarely the same people that burned it down.
> Are there circumstances under which nation states could/should be seen as 'communities', I wonder.
No. Imagined communities are fake communities with none of the feedback mechanisms that make real communities resilient to elements that have extremely different priorities to the median member. See how the Swedish Social Democrats imported over 1% of the Swedish population in one year from Syria.
