i decry the wasted effort
of nationalism
if you look for
a thing that isn’t there
finding it
will take forever
but we keep looking
for sovereignty
as if it could keep us warm
or fill our bellies
when we have for long
lived in an age of empires
we bear the fasces epochal
as the colonial ceasefire breaches
yet more racist murders
sanctioned.
victory is hollow.
temporary.
achievement too
the only thing
is the process
of making
of caring
of loving

all nationalism is bad, it really doesn’t matter what country it relates to. all nationalism is rooted in complacency, historical delusions, perverse grudges, jingoism, racism, fairy tales and holy violence.

the struggle of one is the struggle of all. when we reject that, we are forced into a debilitating cognitive dissonance that blurs all boundaries. when you adopt a team and make it your identity, yet have no control of the team, you are creating the circumstances for terrible moral compromises.