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In reply to the discussion: The United States is the most hated country in the world. [View all]Newest Reality
(12,712 posts)were, are, and always be nothing more than ideas. There are those who internalize those ideas and identify with them in a way that reinforces their boundaries and ideologies.
Being for, against or ignorant of those ideas and boundaries, unfortunately, reinforces them, hence they prevail. There is only one source and location for all the resources and territory that prevailing ideas and agendas jealously and ruthlessly demarcate, i.e., this planet.
While the "cold, hard facts" of life are utilized as a means to support and exaggerate the abstract notions that there are real, concrete "lines" on the globe that indicate zones, ownership and sovereignty, ultimately, they are the result of imagination mistaken for reality itself.
As a basis, boundaries can be useful and give us direction as we move about and settle-down. When we take them to be anything more than consensual, (and often non-consensual) assertions and conceptual projections, the problems and suffering that ensue are obvious as history reveals.
Regardless of how many of us agree to the outcome of the imaginations of others concerning rulers, leaders, nations, states and such, we are only bound to that relative and limited view until we apply our own insight into how this comes about and maybe, resort to our own imagination.