Humans have survived on Earth for hundreds of thousands of years because we organized ourselves into groups, and this concept was evidently successful.

An individual needs the group; the group doesn’t necessarily need the individual.

Various Considerations of Groups.

Groups and Nations

Should a region of the world descend into chaos, e.g., due to a natural disaster, nuclear war, etc., people would very quickly gather in groups of approximately 20-200 people. Within such a group, people would help each other, feel comforted, and secure. Competition for resources with other groups would immediately arise, which in turn would lead to aggression and hostility between the groups.

It is inconceivable that individuals, i.e., hundreds of thousands of individuals in a city, would simply continue to live alone or in small families and then unconditionally help and trust other unknown people; after all, humans have evolved to live in small groups. Until humans to settle, there were probably only these small groups, but this changed when settlements and villages, and then cities, emerged. People remained stationary, and the advantages of settlements, villages, and cities were such that more and more people wanted to live there. A larger group of people offers many advantages and makes many achievements and institutions possible. Leaders within a group also become more powerful as their group grows. However, this had to be done against the human tendency to form small and competing groups. To overcome this obstacle, the concept of the “NATION” was created. A nation means teaching any group of people from childhood onward that, for example, all people within certain geographical boundaries, a common faith, the same clothing, language, etc., belong to a single group—your group. This ensured that complete strangers of one nation could meet without suspicion or aggression. The nation creates cohesion and enables positive group behaviour among its members, far beyond the natural, small group size. “Nation building” reduces the disintegration and internal struggles within large groups. Since nations, and especially their often powerful leaders, have always been in competition with other nations, a nation, and especially its leaders, often take advantage of aggression against foreign groups/nations. This mechanism, especially that of an external enemy, strengthens the nation’s cohesion and the leader’s power. If a nation was able to gain resources against another nation, the national feeling and the nation itself were enormously strengthened. But even within the defeated group/nation, a strengthening of national feeling took place due to our group instincts. Since our planet Earth is becoming increasingly smaller and we have long known that we are all in the same boat, it is absolutely necessary for us to carry out global “nation building.” All people in this world are part of a positive group that can only prosper as a cohesive group. Unfortunately, we and our leaders create significantly more distinctions between the people of the world, thereby fuelling fear and aggression between groups and nations. If we understand the group behaviour ingrained in us, then we will also understand that people from other groups are not monsters, unbelievers, savages, colonialists, frauds, know-it-alls, and idiots, but basically people just like us; only that our instincts tell us so. Our instincts also tell us that we want to eat that another gallon of vanilla ice cream, but our minds/intellects prevent us from doing so. So it’s possible. Nations are just artificially blown up group feelings. Let’s inflate some more: Long live the GLOBAL NATION!