nationalism is a disease

Anti-nationalism is a disease that causes people to not take stewardship of their own countries, which is the biggest reason everything is shit in the western world these days.
From the boomers on, everyone just treats their country as an economic zone that they happen to be present in, where life is good for no reason in particular, just sheer luck, and nobody has thought about ensuring things are not shit for their children.

>>213099001 (OP)
when everyone is self hating you get shithole countries like the philippines

>>213099001 (OP)
not if the most likely alternative is islamic globohomo

But yet it's a disease born in Europe, a continent whose history is defined by centuries of conquest, assimilation, and shifting borders.

Why? The very concept of distinct "nations" or "peoples" in Europe is largely a retroactive construction crafted to make sense of regions where ethnic boundaries have long been blurred beyond recognition. Take the British Isles, for example. It's an island where Celts, Romans, Angles, Saxons, Danes, and Normans all arrived, ruled, and intermingled. Who exactly are the "British" today, if not a fusion of these ethnics?

On the continent, the story is even more entangled. The Romans once ruled the entire Mediterranean, but after centuries of intermarriage, collapse, and migration, they vanished—not wiped out, but absorbed—into the very populations they once conquered. The modern "Italians" are not Romans reborn but rather a product of that historical blending.

Yes, centuries of war, conquest, destruction, and rape, any coherent sense of "ethnicity" in Europe had been wiped out. Nationalism didn’t arrive from outside. it was born out of that wreckage
That’s why the word nation came to mean both “people” and “state” because in Europe, there are no true ethnic peoples left. There are only states.

>>213099001 (OP)
>Every nationalist is haunted by the belief that the past can be altered. He spends part of his time in a fantasy world in which things happen as they should — in which, for example, the Spanish Armada was a success or the Russian Revolution was crushed in 1918 — and he will transfer fragments of this world to the history books whenever possible. Much of the propagandist writing of our time amounts to plain forgery. Material facts are suppressed, dates altered, quotations removed from their context and doctored so as to change their meaning. Events which it is felt ought not to have happened are left unmentioned and ultimately denied

>>213099001 (OP)
Except in israel albeit