pantonia

They are the size of countries like Italy. Read above, they too are annoyed at the freeloaders they have to support. Why should the Bay Area have to subsidize Bakersfield?? Make them city-states and Manhattan will resent the Bronx (not that they don't now).

Agreed - the idea that selfhood and duality are illusions of perception have been around at least as long as Buddhism, and philosophically well articulated. They are hardly grounds for dismissing a theory of the fundamental universe.

Some gems in that list after a few somewhat obvious or just arcane ones