A superstition is an easy-to-understand concept that has no basis in reality. Believing a superstition blocks the perception of more useful possibilities. But superstitions are not called superstitions until they are recognized as superstitions. Before then they are regarded as the truth.
A superstition that participants in modern culture have not yet identified as a superstition is "the nation-state." This superstition became popular in the 1800s as a win-lose game ("If you get the resources we die, so we will do whatever it takes to get the resources."). This superstition includes the concept that a nation-state is connected to a piece of land on Earth. Since all the land on Earth has already been claimed by the current 206 nation-states, it is assumed that no new nation-states can emerge on Earth.
But the connection between a nation-state and a plot of land is not a law of nature. It is invented in the imaginations of human beings, pure fiction, a story marketed to you by - you guessed it! - the current set of nation-states!
The concept that land on Earth can be owned by either a person or an organization is also pure fiction, another superstition, easy to understand, but asserted without basis in reality.
In addition, the laws that declare the legality of buying and selling land or mineral rights, and the laws declaring that nation-states rule over anyone or anything inhabiting the land they have claimed, are also completely fabricated. Worse than that, those laws are based on a false paradigm, if one defines "false paradigm" as thoughtware that leads to degrading ecosystems and mass extinction of life on Earth. In other words, the laws making up the set of laws referred to when one uses the phrase "the rule of law" are suicidal and ecocidal. Submitting yourself to western civilization's rule of law is completely insane.
If the laws of a nation-state are assumed to apply to any person standing on soil claimed to be possessed by that nation-state, then when I set foot on the soil of a different nation-state I would automatically be issued a passport from that new nation-state. But this does not occur. I have been living beyond the borders of the United States of America for 19 years yet the laws of the USA still applied to me until this year when I exchanged my US passport for that of a different nation-state, Germany. I was still required to pay taxes to the United States Internal Revenue Service even though I lived on foreign soil. Why? Because I carried a United States passport.
This means there is already a precedent for a nation-state existing wherever the bearer of a passport of that nation-state stands. Therefore nation-states do not have to be associated with pieces of land on Earth.
Nation-states can be defined as the cultural-context-space being held by a group of three or more people mutually committed to each other while serving a common purpose. Jesus was reported to have said that wherever two or more are gathered their common purpose would come to life. We have learned some things since then. It actually takes three or more people to start a new nanonation.
Why three or more? Because human beings function within an identity-framework they have used since childhood to assure their survival. The identity-framework (called the Box in Possibility Management) is a filter interpreting the world for your survival. It asserts its own rightness, even if it is right about you being wrong, or not good enough, a failure, stupid or bad. When two identity frameworks -- each one functioning under the survival imperative that they be right -- come into conflict, who provides the clarity that the two individuals are simply mis-identified as their Boxes? This is the job of the third person.
Four factors prove sufficient for successful mutual commitment with another human being:
1. Physically: The other person does what they say they will do.
2. Emotionally: The other person can repeat back the information and the feelings they hear you say, and can communicate their own thoughts and feelings.
3. Energetically: The other person can shift their behavior when they receive the feedback that what they are doing is not working.
4. Intellectually: You and the other person agree about the context in which you mutually support each other. Contexts are built out of distinctions (such as the distinction between you and your Box, the distinction between low drama and high drama, the distinction between child-level responsibility and radical responsibility, the distinction between feelings and emotions, the distinction between being centered and giving your center away, etc.) and determines the characteristics of your gameworld.
When you find that all four factors are valid with someone, you then have a solid chance that your mutual commitment will be ecstatic. This forms a solid basis for declaring a new nanonation-state in the global ethnosphere.
At present, every United Nations member nation-state uses hierarchical power structures. Hierarchical power structures inherently function with a fatal design flaw in that they select for psychopaths. How? In hierarchies, power positions are obtained by those who do whatever it takes to move up the ladder. The persons best suited to do whatever it takes to get power are the 2% of the human population born with no conscience, in other words, the sociopaths and psychopaths. That is why petitioning any current global (or local) hierarchy to create a bright future for humanity on Earth produces no positive results. Creating a bright future for humanity is not even on their agenda. In the past fifty years global hierarchies have been hijacked by the psychopathic agenda -- which is basically to stay in control and garner even more power and money for their terrified little selves. The current system will not be corrected. It will be left behind for something less boring and less susceptible to takeover by psychopaths.
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