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Nationalism; Because being born in a random geographic location, defined by arbitrary lines drawn on maps by other random people should define your entire life.
The future of society is unpredictable to a degree but the possible paths that lay before us are obvious; we will soon have either one world government or no governments at all.
This truth is a daunting reality that is near-impossible to accept for all nationalists. This will be a hard pill to swallow for those that believe in arbitrary teams, selected by birth-rights, divvied up by drawing imaginary lines on maps.
— Set aside your cloaked racism and ignore the pencil lines on the map.
Fuck your Planetism, we are all star stuff.
(via anarchovelocirachel)
The problem of empire-building is essentially mystical. It must somehow foster the impression that a man is great in the degree that his nation is great; that a German as such is superior to a Belgian as such; an Englishman, to an Irishman; an American, to a Mexican: merely because the first-named countries are in each case more powerful than their comparatives. And people who have no individual stature whatever are willing to accept this poisonous nonsense because it gives them a sense of importance without the trouble of any personal effort.
— Felix Morley, Freedom and Federalism, 1959
Nationalism teaches you to hate people you’ve never even met and take pride in accomplishments you had no part in whatsoever
—
Doug Stanhope
(via alternative-thought)
