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I came late in the third season to HBO's series "Deadwood" -- a compelling portrayal of libertarian self-rule via an informal and minimal state. I've been catching up on what I missed in the first and second season (get the DVDs by clicking here), and discovered this gem in the ninth episode, when the leaders of the camp first set up their minimal state. Says it all, doesn't it... The minimal state is still a state.

Update... Reader Art Patten sends this along:

...what advantage is there today to the nation state? Boundaries between states enshrine and exacerbate inequalities and prevent the free movement of peoples. Large and prosperous state and state-related organizations and locations attract the envy and hostility of others and are sitting duck targets for terrorist action. Technologies of communication and transportation now make geographically-defined communities increasingly irrelevant and provide the new elites and new entrepreneurs with ample opportunity to stand outside them. Economies construct themselves in spite of state management and money flees taxation as relentlessly as water follows gravity.

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