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0:00 The end of the US as a democracy
2:32 The dawn of digital supply
4:40 ANARCHY!
6:26 Social stuff
10:26 A new way of looking at sovereignty
12:46 Digital barons and the new hegemony
19:43 Benevolent tyrants and deals with the devil

The great western tradition of democracy is under siege. Lobbyist interests combined with the greed of representatives and massive barriers to entry for new political actors have led to the US, UK, Australia and Canada devolving into democracies in name alone.

As the power of central governments is sapped by digital technologies - the same technologies that have seen the rise of ungovernable trans-national market titans - humanity's naturalistic tribalism is pushing consumers to become increasingly aligned not along national lines, but with the corporate powerhouses they support.

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