The truth is that there is no ideology more ignoble, futile, unreasonable, slavish and unethical than nationalism. Unfortunately, nationalists seem unable to understand that — like everything human beings do — nations are political organizations of an ephemeral and passing character. It makes no sense to fight for them or for their maintenance. Today they exist, but tomorrow they will no longer exist. In the world we live in, change is simply inevitable.
History shows this. Where is the Roman Empire? The Soviet Union? Yugoslavia? Today, these nations exist only in the history books. Likewise, Brazil will not exist forever, nor will the United States, China or Canada. All these countries are likely to fragment and multiply into countless smaller nations and territories.
In a world ruled by human beings, nothing is permanent. Everything is transient and is in a constant state of change. The nationalist, unfortunately, is that person who resists natural changes and persists in trying to lock everyone in the past, fighting to preserve a political fantasy that will inevitably disintegrate and cease to exist, sooner or later.
Unlike worldly and unethical philosophies such as nationalism, the freedom and emancipation of individuals represent cohesive values that produce concrete results from which progress, prosperity and development flow, at all levels - whether professional, personal, moral, individual or communities. In the end, nothing is superior to a genuinely free society.
At the beginning of the 19th century, nobody thought that the abolition of slavery was possible. Today, likewise, few envision the possibilities of a self-governing society, with decentralization and individual sovereignty as the driving elements of civilization. This is not to say that such a thing is impossible. At the beginning of the 19th century, nobody would believe that in a matter of less than a century, blacks could be free and equal to whites, enjoying exactly the same rights. Today, it would be inconceivable for someone to propose that blacks go back to being slaves to whites. What seemed impossible at the beginning of the 19th century is an undeniable reality in the 21st century.
It is fundamental to understand that nationalism is nothing more than a vile, vulgar and retrograde ideology, which benefits the political class much more than society. The fruits of freedom, on the other hand, far exceed those of any kind of centralization.
There is no cohesive or morally sound value in nationalism to strive for. Nationalism is a worldly ideology that teaches people to be servile and submissive puppets of the rulers who are in power. Keeping an entire nation in a state of servitude — forcing them to be slaves to perfidious, criminal and selfish parasites — is to work against progress and development, in favor of retrogression and decay.
Ultimately, it is the smallest unit, the individual, that we have to worry about. Prioritizing the individual, we prioritize the world. Prioritizing the collective, we do not prioritize anyone. The struggle for uncompromising emancipation is as closely linked to freedom as the natural maintenance of life. To end slavery, the very concept of the nation needs to change. The individual's integration into a community must be a voluntary and spontaneous decision, not an obligation imposed by bureaucrats through arbitrary and inflexible laws.
