Why would I be thinking about 'the future of the country,' which I can't affect? Getting emotionally invested in stuff you can't change is a recipe for anxiety. I can effect change locally; try to make things better for me and my family, day by day. I'll focus there.
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...which people are aligned in their interests and ought to collaborate in their business. this is the consequence of the culture war. the civil cold war (better name for it). until we solve this problem I don't see a way out.
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1/I would just deny there's a problem. The idea of a "nation" is very abstract; it's an emergent property of a sufficient number of people who have a similar-enough view of what a "nation" is. The nation-state is an effective level of organization to have (it seems) for waging
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2/modern wars & having a modern economy; but that doesn't mean there's any cause for us to worry about this level of organization in our day-to-day. Rather, we can (each of us, all of us) discover, create, & partake of local norms which are useful, in communities we create. And
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3/so it has ever been! There's not much need for citizens to think of "the nation" unless the nation is in peril (say, by an invading force that poses an existential threat), or if the nation itself puts citizens in peril (which happens, but unlikely to happen to citizenry as
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4/as a whole). As such, as I said, I'd advocate for finding the level of abstraction best suited to movement and control. It's doubtful the highest level.
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the people who live in America are imperiled by the thing that calls itself the Nation of America. the Nation has too much control over their lives and the stakes are so high that they war against each other for the reins that command this power.
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