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Nation states are memetic egregor, they only exist as long as we believe in them.
Like Santa Claus
Creating disbelief can be as functionallity effective at state dissolution as cracking open the skulls of those who believe in it
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This a fantastic nuanced answer. It does start to go off the rails near the part where you assert china territorial claim over USA’s. And when you say collective action is the only way, which, if I am not mistaken is a core authleft belief.
I think all states and cancerous egregors on the human psyche with varying levels of malignancy.
Even as they make my living conditions possible, I despise them. Especially the part where you correctly identify that not all humans under the egregor’s control are required to believe abd support it for it to continue existing and imposing its will on humanity.
Yes, as long as enough believers enacts its decrees it will endure.
I think what I meant earlier, is that ideas that can dispell this state if belief, can be as effective at cause the egregor’s remission as bombs are at kinetically dismantling it. Maybe even more.
I do take special exception with your notion that these egregors come into being out of conscious and renewed informed consent. Rather I believe they arise out of historical and material contingency and persist through friction, self-reinforcement and passive failure of imagination for an alternative by the population.
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Everyone should read When serfs stood up in Tibet by Anna Louise Strong
https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/strong-anna-louise/1959/tibet/ch17.htm
I guess the US really likes protecting the rights of pedophiles…
Dalai Lama apologises after kissing boy and asking him to ‘suck my tongue’
Tibetan monks literally had child sex slaves. Those dudes have a better PR department than the Catholic church
Those dudes have a better PR department than the Catholic church
Catholic church isn’t backed by the entire western propaganda machine, Dalai Lama is.
Reporter: [REDACTED]
Reason: Dumbass alert🤡
Some reports make me want to break my own rule of not divulging reporters’ names.
So, if any of your local religious leaders is a pedophile you lose your right to self determination? That will massively reduce the number of sovereign countries. To 0.
right to self determination
China freed the Tibetan people from serfdom imposed by a feudal religious state.
Found the tankie.
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Don’t worry, some lib’ll tell you.
The whole thread is full of them.
Good.
If the country is a theocracy run by a ruling class of slave owning pedophiles, yes, that government deserves to go away. Serfdom is bad.
And does it deserve to be colonized? Because you are basically justifing imperial colonization.
It’s not colonized, so your question is irrelevent.
If that happens good? Why do we think having countries and borders that creates strife a good thing? If we eliminate all borders and are just humanity I see that as an absolute win.
So, you are telling me that in your enlightened opinion imperialism is a great thing and decolonization was wrong? That’s a take…
ITT: A post critical of China gets flooded by lemmy.ml whataboutism comments.
If anything, this is a post critical of the US lmao
You’re projecting
