When I was young, the idea of the abolition of national states appeared progressive and virtuous to me. Now it seems like a call for the mass murder of civilizational intellects.
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Replying to @nosilverv
Your own intellect is not monolithic, but a rarely fully coherent orchestra of different mental instruments. Likewise, the civilizational intellect becomes visible when you integrate over the effects of the interaction of its influential minds, over a sufficiently long time.
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Replying to @Plinz
Which civilizational intellects are there? American/Western/Chinese/Russia/Arabic? Something else? At what level do you break them down? Do they contain sub-intellects (Does the Russian one exist under the European one?)? How do they relate to languages, literature, borders?
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Functionally, almost every nation state is autonomous and distinctly organized. Many tried to implement similar control mechanisms (so they form families), but since it happened in a different external and internal context, the results were different.
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