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What's even more problematic is that you have been downvoted on a community that was founded by people who participated in building the tech responsible for for
by sighsigh 12y ago
What's even more problematic is that you have been downvoted on a community that was founded by people who participated in building the tech responsible for forging history's first self-sustaining post-nationalist identity (the internet) in history.
The nation-state must be the enemy, which can only be defeated by a nation-state... because the concept of a nation-state is dying and is engaging in full blown Hegelian dialectics to keep itself afloat. Unions, nationalists, and identity zealots have been having a field day with HackerNews as of late.
- wcummings 12y ago>history's first self-sustaining post-nationalist identity (the internet) What do you mean by this?
- sighsigh 12y agoIt means the internet allows people to communicate, share ideas, and form cultural bonds and identities outside of the highly-restricted context of national frameworks.
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- gizmo686 12y ago>history's first self-sustaining post-nationalist identity I am not a historian, but wouldn't that honor go to religion? Regardless, religion is certainly older than the Internet.
- sighsigh 12y agoThis is technically correct in concept, but not in practice, as organized religion existed long before the formalization of the nation-state. In fact, one can even argue that nationalism is an agnostic subdivision of organized theology since it utilizes identical symbol worship mechanisms.