“ Just as the attempts to preserve the power of knights in armor were doomed to fail in the face of gunpowder weapons, so the modern notions of nationalism and citizenship are doomed to be short-circuit… James Dale Davidson
“ The cybereconomy, rather than China, could well be the greatest economic phenomenon of the next thirty years. James Dale Davidson
“ Topographic conditions were the foundation of Greek democracy, just as those of a different kind gave rise to the Oriental despotisms of Egypt and elsewhere. James Dale Davidson
“ This tended to increase the size of societies because contests of violence more often than not were won by the larger group. James Dale Davidson
“ The basic causes of change are precisely those that are not subject to conscious control. James Dale Davidson
“ Other things being equal, the more widely dispersed key technologies are, the more widely dispersed power will be, and the smaller the optimum scale of government. James Dale Davidson
“ The more apparent it is that a system is nearing an end, the more reluctant people will be to adhere to its laws. James Dale Davidson
“ Microprocessing reduces the size that groups must stain in order to be effective in the use and control of violence. James Dale Davidson
“ Faster than all but a few now imagine, microprocessing will subvert and destroy the nation-state, creating new forms of social organization in the process. James Dale Davidson
“ You cannot friend upon conventional information sources to give you an objective and timely warning about how the world is changing and why. James Dale Davidson
“ Incomes will become more unequal within jurisdictions and more equal between them. James Dale Davidson
“ Before the discovery of quinine in the mid-nineteenth century, white armies could not survive in malarial regions, however superior their weapons might have been. James Dale Davidson
“ Because of the colder weather, prosperity began to wind down into a long global depression that began around 1620. It proved drastically destabilizing. The economic crisis of the seventeenth century l… James Dale Davidson
“ Violence is the ultimate boundary force on behavior; this, if you can understand how the logic of violence will change, you can usefully predict where people will be dropping or picking up the equival… James Dale Davidson
“ Every social order incorporates among its key taboos the notion that people living in it should not think about how it will end and what rules may prevail in the new system that takes its place. James Dale Davidson
“ A great part of the cultural energy of poor farming societies has always been devoted to suppressing experimentation. If they had insurance, or sufficient savings to self-insure their experiments, suc… James Dale Davidson
