I've not yet listened to this but isn't it the other way around. Families create nations? To some extent people care about their nation because is the land built by their ancestors, their families. This is one of the reasons that immigrants rarely integrate.
Nation = a connected group of people (historically, networks of clans sharing religion and blood)
People should care about the nation because it is literally their family, their clan of clans.
America's global cultural dominance has fucked these words up. It was polite to refer to America as a "nation" as a gesture toward common cause. Realistically, America is ~20 nations, one for each stereotype you can come up with: east coast, Midwestern, Irish Catholic, etc., etc. Even most of those have been subsumed by globohomo.
its more complicated than I could put into the title but families strengthen nations as long as those nations serve the interests of the family
but states like ours which is, at this point, pretty much a kakistocracy that values compliance and moral flexibility over competence necessarily must weaken family bonds so that individuals have no competing loyalties
I've not yet listened to this but isn't it the other way around. Families create nations? To some extent people care about their nation because is the land built by their ancestors, their families. This is one of the reasons that immigrants rarely integrate.
State = government
Country = land administered by the state
Nation = a connected group of people (historically, networks of clans sharing religion and blood)
People should care about the nation because it is literally their family, their clan of clans.
America's global cultural dominance has fucked these words up. It was polite to refer to America as a "nation" as a gesture toward common cause. Realistically, America is ~20 nations, one for each stereotype you can come up with: east coast, Midwestern, Irish Catholic, etc., etc. Even most of those have been subsumed by globohomo.
The same goes for Canada, traditionally, even beyond the Anglo-Franco divide; each region has its own stereotype.
This pretty much sums things up.
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Without a lick of irony: yes.
its more complicated than I could put into the title but families strengthen nations as long as those nations serve the interests of the family
but states like ours which is, at this point, pretty much a kakistocracy that values compliance and moral flexibility over competence necessarily must weaken family bonds so that individuals have no competing loyalties
Families are the core building block of communities, which in turn are the bedrock of a nation.