Posted on 01/29/2024 4:22:02 AM PST by MtnClimber
The Rio Grande border conflict is not an isolated incident. It is part of the World Economic Forum program of "denationization" of the United States.
In the same way that a “state” is a form of self-organization of human society, a “nation” can also be treated as a form of self-organization. These terms are different in nuance, and Russian conservative philosopher Nicolai Berdyaev was the first to devise a formula to discern between them a century ago. His analysis proceeds from the application of the eschatological way of thinking. Berdyaev stated that humans are mortal; therefore, a state or government, as an example of human creation, is also mortal. “Nation” emerged when our ancestors realized the need to self-organize along transcendental lines rather than administrative ones.
The newly created self-organized form was intended to achieve what was radically unachievable -- immortality. Unlike all other animals, humans have always sought to transcend ordinary biological existence. Our predecessors figured that life is a process while death is an event and focused on life.
Berdyaev wrote in 1923 that “[t]he manner of life of a nation is not to be defined nor explained, be it by race, nor by language, nor by religion, nor by territory, nor by state sovereignty, although all these signs more or less are extant for the national manner of life. And most correct are those who define the nation as a oneness of historical destiny. The awareness of this unity is also what comprises the national consciousness.”
Finally, “[t]he nation is not merely the generation alive today, nor is it the sum of all the generations. A nation is not a mere composite accumulation; it is something primordial, an eternally alive subject within the historical process, it is there live and dwell all the past generations...
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
The left is not on our side.
No kidding.
Absolutely.
“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children’s children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.”
― Ronald Reagan
Nation as opposed to country or government — that’s a valid distinction.
But looking to a Russian intellectual to clarify things, that’s a fool’s game.
He was supposedly an existentialist, but I would classify him as a typical muddled Russian Platonist.
Existentialism, like Marxism and Platonism, isn’t native to Russia but it thrives in that rich soil of the mind.
Berdyaev eventually experienced the wrong end of Marxism, so he recoiled toward the existentialist concept of freedom. Rather than seek a rationalist basis for it he took the lazy way out — Platonism.
Which is essentially mysticism.
Read mysticism at your peril, you’re liable to emerge knowing less than you started with.
I seriously doubt the U.S. has ever been a real nation in my lifetime. We became an empire at least 60 years before I was even born.
So the obvious thing for the states to do to protest their sovereignty is to send their 'parolees' to District of Collumbia, where they belong.
You posted this article about eight hours ago.
Apparently, only you and I read it.
Sad.
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