• AbsentBird@lemm.eeEnglish
    4·
    11 个月前

    There’s hunter-gatherer tribes that have been more or less stable for over a thousand years. It’s said that the Nez Perce have lived on the Columbia River for 11,500 years.

    • samus12345@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      11 个月前

      Yeah, but for the purpose of looking at stable governments in cities, hunter-gather societies aren’t a helpful comparison.

    • kaffiene@lemmy.worldEnglish
      31·
      11 个月前

      Good points but my question is more about governments that work at the scale of a nation state.

      • AbsentBird@lemm.eeEnglish
        8·
        11 个月前

        I think it’s possible that nation states are inherently unstable. An improvement on monarchy, but still vulnerable to oligarchy.

        I’m not sure what the future holds, or what comes next, but I suspect that federation will play an important role.