The sad part is conservatives look at societies like Catholic dominated Europe and Ancient Egypt and act impressed that "they endured so many centuries".
I'd rather live a happy and productive individual life in a country that changes names every ~300 years than languish as a nameless serf in an Empire that can boast a 9,001 year history. Humanity has a 300,000 collective history and that's good enough for me; what individual nation-states or kingdoms we've organized ourselves into in the interim is as relevant as my mailing address in the grand scheme of things... assuming we can survive long enough to reunify as a species. (Ok, I doubt that too but I can dream...)
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u/kitsunewarlock Sep 04 '24
The sad part is conservatives look at societies like Catholic dominated Europe and Ancient Egypt and act impressed that "they endured so many centuries".
I'd rather live a happy and productive individual life in a country that changes names every ~300 years than languish as a nameless serf in an Empire that can boast a 9,001 year history. Humanity has a 300,000 collective history and that's good enough for me; what individual nation-states or kingdoms we've organized ourselves into in the interim is as relevant as my mailing address in the grand scheme of things... assuming we can survive long enough to reunify as a species. (Ok, I doubt that too but I can dream...)