re: Is nationalism the tool to accelerate globalism?

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Nationalism is tribal and pure and real and has existed as long as man has existed.

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The concept of nations (nation-states) as we currently understand them is very, very new in human history. So how the hell is nationalism as old as mankind?

Maybe you mean something else.

Deep in the Deep State's Washington DC way of ruling you and me, no matter what we want instead.
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"State within a state is a political situation in a country when an internal organ ("deep state"), such as the armed forces and civilian authorities (intelligence agencies, police, administrative agencies and branches of governmental bureaucracy)."

"That does not respond to the civilian political leadership. Although the state within the state can be conspiratorial in nature, the Deep State can also take the form of entrenched unelected career civil servants acting in a non-conspiratorial manner, to further their own interests (e.g., job security, enhanced power and authority, pursuit of ideological goals and objectives, and the general growth of their agency) and in opposition to the policies of elected officials, by obstructing, resisting, and subverting the policies and directives of elected officials. The term, like many in politics, derives from the Greek language (???t?? e? ???te?, kratos en kratei, later adopted into Latin as imperium in imperio[1] or status in statu)."

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Tribalism obviously begat Nationalism though.

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Of course humans are tribal, social creatures who seek out mutually beneficial associations, often explicitly to the exclusion of "others" or outsiders. But tribal behaviors that naturally make sense for a tribe, a congregation, or a community of like-minded, mutually interested people do not and should not carry over to large, legal/political entities which bind together strangers who often have little in common and whose interests are often non-aligned or even competing--like states. We don't "experience" our status as members of a nation the way we do our membership in close and sometimes self-selected cohorts. And we should be capable of reasoning that everything and everyone who isn't in our group isn't necessarily the threat our ancestors would have been wise to perceive them as.

I know this is a pretty glass-heavy trajectory to throw a stone, but I'm chuckling at the earnest wall of text in response to Alex Jones pictures

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I know this is a pretty glass-heavy trajectory to throw a stone, but I'm chuckling at the earnest wall of text in response to Alex Jones pictures

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I can't view the pics. Had no idea what they were.