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Originally Posted by alansmithee
Aggressive nationalism is something that is generally harmful. But nationalism can also give unity and defense against outside forces, and help mobilize people more efficiently.
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But that is also a great danger, this feeling of an "outside danger" can turn an whole nation into a mindless mass (see that famous Goering quote)
Nationalism is just a form of primitive tribalism, the tribe just got bigger. The principle is still the same, we are bound together because of $obsurce_reason and the others are inferior because of $other_obsurce_reason. nationalism always has the tendency to go into a "we are better" kind of thinking, without any logical reason.
Nationalism is emotional and thus too often clouds rational und reasonable thoughts and solutions.
I hope that we will be able to make the next step, and realise that the only "tribe" that matters is the human tribe. We shouldn't need this religion like nationalism, we should work together because it makes sense. This will be hard to achieve, but I think it is worth the effort. Thats why I think the UN is good, not because it is perfect, it is far from that, but because it is an first step in the right direction.