Fifth footnote to the post titled “Deepseek”

“The Problem of Allocation.” Talcott Parsons. If in the very end it is all about the question of who gets what and who does what within the basic framework of a nation-state, then perhaps our current flow or stream converges on the issue of debt and the cultural factors which drove it. And as a result of it all, it could very much be the case that we have ceased to exist as a functional nation-state. But it is perhaps too early to tell at this point. The likelihood is that we have in fact ceased to exist as a functional nation-state.