Specifically, the myth of #nationalism and the #nationalist or fanaticism and fascism by another name.
Gather around the Twitter campfire folks, it’s time for some truth tells.
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The first truth is no human is a nationalist nor can any human declare themselves such without immediately making themselves an enemy of the rest of the human family, either individually or collectively.
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Nationalism universally results in subjugation and oppression of other selves. Humans have known this iron-clad fact for 10,000 years of recorded history. Nationalism bears no good fruit.
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Which is an amazing accomplishment for something that is impermanent as it is imaginary since nationalism is no more real than the nations propping it up.
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Nations themselves aren’t real, they’re human constructs. They only exist because we humans say so. Hundreds if not thousands of civilizations have come and gone on this planet. The lesson is that human beings are what last, nations do not.
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Like the gods of old, nations only exist as long as they have people to believe in and support them. Otherwise they disappear.
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Nationalism, like nations, is a concept and a dangerous one at that.
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Nationalism is just tribalism turned fascist and genocidal. In fact, nationalism is the natural conclusion of tribalism.
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