Ah Yahweh, indeed a good reminder via Asimov's dictum. What is interesting in the quote are two tensional perspectives on nations and on reality. Humanity has to come to terms with our legacy of and construction of nations and nationalism. I see that as a fact but it is not necessarily the truth of existence in the human experience. We humans have experimented in nationhood, and now is the time to re-evaluate its experiment. So, the tension for us to negotiate, as I see it is in our conciousness (interiority of reality) with our consciousness (exteriority of reality)--and to transform the intersection of the awakening (a la Asimov) that "There are no nations" and there "will be no nations" (meaning, that at the moment and for a long time in history there are nations). The tensional contradiction is a place for working intelligence to resolve this contradiction. There's no easy exit from it but to dwell in it and understand it first.
I approve unconditionally that we have to come to re-solve the problem of how to organize humanity--and that nationhood and nationalism (and their sticky fear-based attachments to ethnocentrism, egocentricism and anthropocentrism) ought to be re-imagined in a higher consciousness of worldcentric and theocentric perspectives. The path of fearlessness is a good route to utilize in this re-organization and taking a higher perspective on Reality itself and our identities that follow. Basically, we humans have to re-learn what it means to be human and re-construct identities along other gradients of possibilities than merely a foregone conclusions that nationhood is the way to go. It clearly isn't working.
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Ah Yahweh, indeed a good reminder via Asimov's dictum. What is interesting in the quote are two tensional perspectives on nations and on reality. Humanity has to come to terms with our legacy of and construction of nations and nationalism. I see that as a fact but it is not necessarily the truth of existence in the human experience. We humans have experimented in nationhood, and now is the time to re-evaluate its experiment. So, the tension for us to negotiate, as I see it is in our conciousness (interiority of reality) with our consciousness (exteriority of reality)--and to transform the intersection of the awakening (a la Asimov) that "There are no nations" and there "will be no nations" (meaning, that at the moment and for a long time in history there are nations). The tensional contradiction is a place for working intelligence to resolve this contradiction. There's no easy exit from it but to dwell in it and understand it first.
I approve unconditionally that we have to come to re-solve the problem of how to organize humanity--and that nationhood and nationalism (and their sticky fear-based attachments to ethnocentrism, egocentricism and anthropocentrism) ought to be re-imagined in a higher consciousness of worldcentric and theocentric perspectives. The path of fearlessness is a good route to utilize in this re-organization and taking a higher perspective on Reality itself and our identities that follow. Basically, we humans have to re-learn what it means to be human and re-construct identities along other gradients of possibilities than merely a foregone conclusions that nationhood is the way to go. It clearly isn't working.