{"id":97557,"date":"2026-01-14T02:00:47","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T07:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=97557"},"modified":"2026-01-14T10:31:55","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T15:31:55","slug":"is-a-world-state-inevitable-feral-historian-vs-damien-walter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2026\/01\/14\/is-a-world-state-inevitable-feral-historian-vs-damien-walter\/","title":{"rendered":"Is a World State Inevitable? Feral Historian vs Damien Walter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hj_lBPRcMoU?si=iYR6zK004tZTWEHh\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Feral Historian<\/strong><br \/>\nPublished 22 Aug 2025<\/p>\n<p>Science fiction is full of depictions of global superstates and beyond, depictions of humanity as a single unified people. Is this possible? And if so, what might a viable world state actually look like? Or is it all just the fever dream of dirt-league Stalins? Join Damo and myself for a two-part discussion of the inevitability, possibilities, and acceptability of a world state. <\/p>\n<p>00:00 Intro<br \/>\n03:32 A Story of War<br \/>\n09:08 Us and Them<br \/>\n10:52 Culture<br \/>\n17:24 Federation and Nationalism<br \/>\n22:03 Reminders from the ComBloc<br \/>\n23:45 The World State We Have<\/p>\n<p>Check out Damo&#8217;s take  \u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=b2YVDhSyBVU\" target=\"_blank\">Is a World State&#8230;inevitable? Damien Walt&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udd39 New Merch!  | feral-shop.fourthwall.com<br \/>\n\ud83d\udd39 Patreon   | patreon.com\/FeralHistorian<br \/>\n\ud83d\udd39 Ko-Fi     | ko-fi.com\/feralhistorian<\/p>\n<p>Obligatory plug for <em>Ninti&#8217;s Gate<\/em><br \/>\n\ud83d\udd39 amazon.com\/dp\/B0CYXH9BWD<br \/>\n\ud83d\udd39 and now on Kobo kobo.com\/us\/en\/ebook\/ninti-s-gate?sId=f30f9d90-907a-449a-aeab-7b25215297f1<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Feral Historian Published 22 Aug 2025 Science fiction is full of depictions of global superstates and beyond, depictions of humanity as a single unified people. Is this possible? And if so, what might a viable world state actually look like? Or is it all just the fever dream of dirt-league Stalins? Join Damo and myself [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,28,53],"tags":[409,262,1454,1149,1593,1161,85,223],"class_list":["post-97557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-media","category-politics","tag-corporations","tag-culture","tag-dunbarnumber","tag-eastindiacompany","tag-feralhistorian","tag-mercenaries","tag-sf","tag-startrek"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-pnv","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97557"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100331,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97557\/revisions\/100331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}