mitigatedchaos said:
Or, to put it another way, to instantiate any ideology on this Earth, you must have people willing to fight to the death to do so.
mitigatedchaos said:
Plus all sorts of other complications, like the ability to summon an army to fight on behalf of the nation, to convince people to sacrifice for others, the risk of summoning an incompetent and oppressive world government… I’ve touched on some of these on my blog, but yeah, getting rid of all Nationalism is a terrible idea.
mitigatedchaos said:
Because trying to do that just replaces the uppermost tier of unified identity with ethnic loyalty. There is no such thing as a “global citizen”.