Sociologists have long marveled at the degree to which the norms of the modern nation-state is imprinted upon the humanpsyche by its pre-existing ideology, which has permeated individual’s thoughts, muscles, and morality. These norms arethen deconstructed and reconstructed into the optimal form   31   by the modern age. In this way individuals gothrough their day with the expectation that everyone will   32   their generalized assumptions about how a “normal”person will respond and behave. And so children habitually obey, anticipating the wishes of a parent or teacher, as wellas the   33   of the police officer, professor, shop-keeper, workplace supervisor, and tax collector. This generalizedanticipation becomes the shared common sense around   34   people are expected to orient their thoughts, behaviors,and world views. Such common sense is often bounded by the modern nation-state;   35   in recent years, it has attimes gone global. In the process, the unique characters of smaller polities, economies, and societies slowly but surelydisappear under the weight of modernity.