Illusion

Posted by mercedo on March 6, 2009, 9:03 am, in reply to "Security/ War/ This could be the start"

Originally the concept of nation was obscure. There's a lot of small islands off the coast of Korean peninsula called Wa and later people immigrated to what we now know Japan archiperagoes. People who live there in ancient times had been eager to be a subject of Chinese empire rather than citizens of an independent sovereign state.

People who live Brittany peninsula of northern France immigrated to what we now know Great Britain island. Their consciousness of being the people of new country must have been obscure at the moment they arrived.

In the case of America, too. They must have been proud of being British nationals in the first place they arrived.

The concept of nation is neither absolute nor perpetual. Usually the notion of being a member of new nation comes as a thief, they rob old conscousness and give themselves for us instead.

Nation is illusion.


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