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Geographically defined jurisdictions are obsolescent. We the people, regardless of whether we are physically sitting in Ohio or France, spend more and more of our time and energy in this digital space that you and I mentally occupy right now. The word "virtual" in this context is denial of reality.

Terrestrial governments will go the way of county government in Massachusetts. No one knows what Massachusetts county governments do besides invisibly consume a portion of our "state" tax.

Norfolk County Agricultural School still exists to train farmers in a suburban Boston county that has practically no farms left; it's just another part of the anachronism that is geographically defined jurisdiction. Norfolk Aggie will be around for another hundred years, providing a sinecure for school administrators who are confident in the knowledge that everyone's too busy writing and commenting on blogs to bother to ask questions.

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