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The whole country thing is ludicrous. All countries are fake divisions, often created long ago, which are treated as if God given. They create huge problems and
by beardyw 3y ago
The whole country thing is ludicrous. All countries are fake divisions, often created long ago, which are treated as if God given. They create huge problems and fix very little.
- bardan 3y agoI suppose the leaders and associated militaries of these countries would beg to differ.
- beardyw 3y agoIt's the only reason they exist. So, yes.
- krono 3y agoLong before we had invented the concept of countries, there were city states fulfilling a similar role, and those were preceded by various sorts of tribal constructs which have existed since forever. Humanity has always gravitated towards building societies centred around the concepts that modern-day nation states also embody. Our natural drive to band together and our tendency to be creating new fake problems all the time is certainly an interesting pairing at times.
- beardyw 3y agoPerhaps the ultimate progression is even larger groups until there is just one.
- c420 3y agoCan't have an us without a them
- rcxdude 3y agoPerhaps, but the groups have subgroups and those have subgroups and so on until the individual. The world as a whole may get more integrated, and the exact way that dividing lines between the groups work may change (e.g. not so focused on geographic areas and more mutable), but I think it will always be there to some extent.
- krono 3y agoThe vastly complex system of interdependencies linked to globalisation could be the some early stage of that. Ironically this theatre is also where those made-up problems of ours can very quickly turn into real ones. Being part of only a single group isn't really our thing though. Without something external to focus on we quickly tend go down this path of surprisingly efficient self-destructive behaviour that often involves lots of heavy weaponry. We are chaos incarnate :)
- hsjqllzlfkf 3y agoWhat alternative would you suggest?
- beardyw 3y agoWell having come from the hippy age I have no particular answers, just unreasonable ambitions. Peace man.
- soraminazuki 3y agoWhat creates problems is human conflict. I'm not optimistic that eliminating borders would make problems go away. But I agree that our obsession over nationality is unhealthy though.