Stateless institutions (Bitcoin exemplified) cannot replace nation-states as sources of community and institutional stability because the fundamental social science principle—established by Weber, Durkheim, Sumner—is that conflict is the incubator of community, and sustained community formation requires nation-state aggregation of power through centralized military, bureaucracy, and tax capacity

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Neil Howe

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It's this intense community of the whole country becomes a band of brothers. That's what the society we learned.

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The Fourth Turning is Here | Neil Howe Explains What Comes NextExcess Returns
Created: 8/11/2026, 6:40:49 AM

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