Thought provoking piece with some interesting ideas and ways of taking forward thinking into tangible deliverables.

We keep returning to the state, or even nation state, which is the unit of negotiation and must now be placed (again since we possibly saw this circa 1880–1910 and again 1960s-70s) into the context of the conglomerate platform owners.

Point regarding self and gap to state well founded and we return to the role of the platforms.

Self reliance fit to this (overused) term reslience since we are not looking to return to original shape surely but look to offer greater equity and look at issues of inequality of opportunity?