Comte de Sats Germain on Nostr: GM ☕ The problem with nation states is that they don't grant a culture a dignified ...
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The problem with nation states is that they don't grant a culture a dignified death. Cultures have life cycles. They start with exuberant life and growth, easily recruiting new members from nearby dying cultures and developing intellectually, artistically, and territorially. But death creeps upon a culture as corruption infects institutions and invert values.
Before the modern nation state, sick cultures were given a relatively quick death when foreign people invaded - peaceful migration or opportunistic conquest, either way of invasion made a quick end to the dying culture.
But now the modern nation states have made agreements with each other and almost eliminated the danger of invasion. Borders are only porous when the government decides to bring in migrants. The hubris of the state is thinking that it can swap out cultures and continue its corrupt parasitism indefinitely. It thinks it has cheated death by transcending culture. But they err - the cancer of corruption is a separate beast, and an elephant cannot ride a donkey.
Which death is preferable? The complete death of hubris, or the death that leads to renewal?
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The problem with nation states is that they don't grant a culture a dignified death. Cultures have life cycles. They start with exuberant life and growth, easily recruiting new members from nearby dying cultures and developing intellectually, artistically, and territorially. But death creeps upon a culture as corruption infects institutions and invert values.
Before the modern nation state, sick cultures were given a relatively quick death when foreign people invaded - peaceful migration or opportunistic conquest, either way of invasion made a quick end to the dying culture.
But now the modern nation states have made agreements with each other and almost eliminated the danger of invasion. Borders are only porous when the government decides to bring in migrants. The hubris of the state is thinking that it can swap out cultures and continue its corrupt parasitism indefinitely. It thinks it has cheated death by transcending culture. But they err - the cancer of corruption is a separate beast, and an elephant cannot ride a donkey.
Which death is preferable? The complete death of hubris, or the death that leads to renewal?
#gm #coffee