Nation building

Question from the Internet:

“What are the implications of nation-building?”

Your question is very important. Most people would assume that a “nation” is something “automatic” when people living in a certain, specified place, having some natural, cultural, familial, or religious common roots become a nation.

And this might have been true before, when people’s sense of individuality, the constant self-serving, self-justifying, and egocentric urges, weren’t strong enough to break such instinctive band natural ties between people.

But as our “ego” and all our self-centered and individualistic aspirations and inclinations grow — especially in our times when such urges and inclinations have become the most intense — a “nation” needs to be consciously and purposefully built.

A “nation” can function only when there exists a certain level of mutual responsibility and mutual guarantee between the members of the “nation,” where all members clearly and “viscerally” sense their interdependence and their obligation to look after and care for each other.

And this mutual responsibility and mutual guarantee is something that is against our inherent nature, which inherent nature is 100% self-serving, self-justifying, and exploitative of others.

As a result, we can see that nationality and nationalism are usually revived and strengthened through pressure or activities. A nation defines itself through ruthless and exclusive competition — like in sports or business and trade, for example — or through wars.

Without such pressure or artificial activities, nations turn on themselves and can even run into civil wars due to the deepening divisions and disagreements between factions, parties, ideologies, or religious divides.

Thus without learning, practicing, and implementing mutual responsibility and mutual guarantee within nations — above and against our instinctive distrust and animosity — we will continue to experience and suffer from inner strife within nations which will also cause external conflicts and wars.

We all need to correct and further develop ourselves to achieve that crucially important sense and obligation for mutual responsibility and mutual guarantee within nations, so through that, we could also learn how to build mutual responsibility and mutual guarantee between nations on a global scale.

Mutual guarantee is a notion we need to learn from nature. Only from nature’s integrated and living systems can we see and copy how all elements of integrated systems have to become absolute guarantors for the well-being and optimal state of all other elements of the system.

We can learn and practice this through a unique method that can help us understand and tangibly sense how inevitably and irrevocably mutually integrated and interdependent we all are — within nations and between nations. This will give us the foundation for implementing mutual guarantee willingly and consciously since we will all understand and feel that it is for our own benefit.