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I'm not in favor of governments at all, as you know, but I think that nationalism is an emergent property of innate human behaviors.
I see your "innate human behavior" and raise you a Holy Roman Empire. Humans were around for millennia before nation-states arose. They take constant work & propaganda to maintain.
I think you mean "state" not "nation state", because the latter means ethnically / culturally homogeneous. Regardless, state apparatus consumes calorie surplus - innovations in tech (mostly ag tech) allow for more parasitism. ...but there's been parasitism since day 0.
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