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minus-squarePersnickityPenguinlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down8·1 month agoCounterargument: If no one believes or identifies with a nation, that nation will cease to exist.
minus-squareNutWrench@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down1·1 month agoThe idea that “things don’t exist when we stop believing in them” is something that most of us outgrow at an early age.
minus-squarenonentity@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up5·1 month agoObject permanence applies to tangible objects, basically things explained by physics and constituted from energy. A nation is a construct of collective imagination, much like religion and economics. National patriotism is a religion which worships dirt.
minus-squarePasserby6497@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·1 month ago If no one believes or identifies with a nation, that nation will cease to exist. Don’t threaten me with a good time
Counterargument:
If no one believes or identifies with a nation, that nation will cease to exist.
The idea that “things don’t exist when we stop believing in them” is something that most of us outgrow at an early age.
Object permanence applies to tangible objects, basically things explained by physics and constituted from energy.
A nation is a construct of collective imagination, much like religion and economics.
National patriotism is a religion which worships dirt.
This guy gets it.
Don’t threaten me with a good time