Interesting thesis

Yale Professor James C. Scott has written a book, The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia, which posits the existence of a large swath of highland Asia that has effectively resisted the idea of the nation-state. The actuality of “Zomia”, as the region is called, is a controversial thesis, but, if nothing else, tends to support the timeless wisdom embedded in the expression, “Head for the hills!”