Nations

The motive of a nation, its reason of being, is to provide a coherent container for its inhabitants. To consolidate the myriads of humans, households, and communities, as well as their resources, needs, objectives, and efforts into one composite unit with a comprehensible identity and direction. Physical stability, safety, fluid commerce, the wide distribution of arts and expressions, and the many benefits arisen from nations, are but side effects of what they essentially provide: coherency among a container of human units.

The solution of the nation arises naturally to solve the problem of scattered focus and wasted effort. It is but a relatively stable or congealed level of the iterative grouping which results in the natural hierarchy observed at all levels in nature. As such, its identity stands on its own, and does not depend on its environment or on its circumstances to be defined.

Its identity is however often conflated to introduce elements of competition, or of juxtaposition, with other nations around it. Having grown mindlessly, often greedily, to the point where their borders clash against each other with force, nations all around the world frequently, and almost continuously, divert their attention from their own well-being towards the aggression that one or more nations insist on pursuing towards each other.

The identity of a nation is composed of the identity its inhabitants assign to it, and thus the identity of a nation will only be as coherent and strong as that assigned by them who populate it. A nation divided truly is like a broken bottle or a cracked pipe - it is unable to serve its purpose, the contents that leak through the cracks spill out and are wasted, and if its inhabitants do not realize the waste of their nation is induced by their own ineptitude, they will attempt to appropriate the resources of another, either by force, coercion, or deceit, and only exacerbate the friction and the lack of internal awareness needed to truly heal their own problems.

It is helpful to any citizen, then, to ponder the motive and identity of his own nation, and of nations in general, so that they may realize the true dynamics, complexities, and needs of their own nation and community, and to observe where in their own life and environment, in his every-day life, has his lack of awareness caused unnecessary waste or friction. Then can he truly contribute to the betterment of the society he inhabits, and by doing so, to the growth and betterment of himself.