What Is The Role of Art in a New Society?

Balaji Srinivasan, Lucretius, and Agitprop

Balaji Srinivasan wants to found a new country. His guiding principle is “cloud first, land last.” He explains:

We build the embryonic state as an open source project, we organize our internal economy around remote work, we cultivate in-person levels of civility, we simulate architecture in VR, and we create art and literature that reflects our values (e…