“What is the point of countries when …”

“What was the point of countries when civilization was only a generation away from extinction?”

from Permafrost, Alastair Reynolds

We aren’t that rational though. So we’ll have national wars right up to the end. We’ll be putting money into winning–nothing. Money that could have gone into surviving. Ditto sports. And entertainment.

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