Dear Aidan,

Catalonia is a good counter example. As I see it the more basic problem is that there are countries, armies, nations, patriotism, wars and all that goes with it. I would like to see countries as becoming nothing more than convenient administrative units.

If every ethnic or religious group that has been subject to persecution founds a nation-state those citizens of the nation-state who are not part of the ethnic or religious group on which the nation-state is based are liable to discrimination and persecution. The solution to persecution is not ethnic nationalism, but it is working for a world where every citizen of every nation-state is treated fairly regardless of ethnicity or religion. I don’t know that it is possible to make such a world, but I feel it’s worth working for.

David F said- " I would like to see countries as becoming nothing more than convenient administrative units."

Answer- This seems to be a Locke Liberalist view. Over time- due to Patrick Deneen and many others I've lost faith with the concept of "Locke Liberalism" in both the "so called left and right". I'll respectfully disagree with the "administrative nations idea" that you mentioned. If the administrative nations idea is as Deneen has said is an idea originating with Locke it has had hundreds of years of testing and still has unreconcilable issues. I suspect that these issues have there origin in overpopulation. Zoologist Desmond Morris indicates that the phenomenon of man is suited to much lower densities and much smaller communities. Without a change towards more discipline man seems likely to continue to develop pathology leading to cascading organ failure (that's what Trotsky wanted).

Every culture should have their own nation.

A solution to conflict over scarce resources is less people.

Every culture should have their own nation?

That could be problematic.

Some cultures don't have countries of their own.
They have to share their territories with other
cultures. Even small countries like Switzerland,
Luxembourg or Belgium have several official languages.
Big countries like China and India have also lots of
different traditions, languages and religions. There
are also examples of cultures disappearing.

Foxy- Thanks for your feedback.

Foxy- If every culture had their own nation perhaps there would be less extinct cultures.