Subject #2: On nationalism

Nationalism is the cause of all wars. If there were no borders, no goverments, no politicians then who would be fighting who? And the ironic thing is that in reality there are no borders, no countries - they only live in people's minds. And human mind has tendency to seek acceptance, to belong in a group, to classify and label everything, to create one's identity and connect it to concept of country. Of course the same thing happens not only with concept of country but with culture and race as well. Nationalism is absence of freedom even though word liberty is very common in nationalism.

If one travels around the world, one of the most common questions encountered is "where are you from?". I play by the rules by saying that I'm from Finland only because if I said that to me countries do not exist people would not understand. What is a country? Why people cheer when their "own country" does well in some sport? Why people who considers themselves as citizens of one country choose not to like citizens of another country? When one considers him/herself as citizen of one country, that means that one connects group of ideas into own identity. And one is proud of those ideas and will defend them with dear life if necessary (=concept of patriotism). That's a crazy game which people choose to play.

There have been many visionaries saying that one day there will be just one country, the whole world being it. I have also always thought so, that would be one step closer to the light. But I can't see it happening anytime soon, the game is so strong that it would need some extraordinary events to make people aware enough.