The national identity is a consumer identity.
Nationalism as we know it, is the result of a form of state-sponsored branding.
State worship is an essential part of every government's command and control, from the tiniest banana republics, to imperialist hegemons like America.
Every generation is inculcated in new traditions of prejudice, which are encouraged as normal, natural and healthy.
Any intellectual recognition of legitimately perceivable groups, absent the goal of mutual improvement is ignorance, and an exercise of useless reason.
Our dark lust for competitive domination leads us to complicit acts of murder from-a-distance, through tax-supported militarism in often unnecessary wars.
There is a self-destructive program running in the consciousness of humanity, and we must write a new program.
Under predatory global capitalism, our real trade tariff, is our loss of morality for outsourcing production to developing nations, where sweatshop labor cheaply produces the goods we insatiably consume.
Extreme nationalism objectifies and dehumanizes those from other countries.
If you are competing with slaves, then you are a slave yourself.
