I have always wondered, what makes a nation.
A certain belonging to 'race', or genetics ?
A certain belief, or spirit ?
Or isn't it a mere chance, an accidental 'fortune' that you are born 20 km west or east of a 'line', created by military a$$holes some centuries or decades ago? And you are just thrown in by chance ?
I had high hopes in the late eighties, that "nations" would become a thing of the past, and all would be about science, going to space and let all this bull behind, trying to face other threats.
Unfortunately we had to witness that the glorious western ideas of the pre-1989 times were completely overthrown by its own (former) supporting nations, who carry on like in the best cold war times, acting similar to those nations they had criticised before.
It seems the ideas were only propaganda, instrumentalising certain generations against certain evil other nations.
"I have seen the enemy and he is us."
Thanks and greetings,
Catfish
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