Association with nationhood provides us meaning, for now you are not, just you, but part of gargantuan mass of greatness. Outside of this association, for most of us, our lives will have little value beyond being the cogs that keeps moving the production lines of mass production+
This association with nation gives you meaning however primitive in its conception through sports, films touting a great victory over a rival, curated history interspersed with facts telling you how lucky you are to take birth in this most special land mass+
A doctrine shared intergenerationally normalizing affinity, not unlike religion which is similar to nationhood. All of these to ensure you find within yourself love for this idea for a geographic entity to big for you to even conceptualize in your head. +
This system works when everyone is primed to do their roles the factory worker runs the machine to create the product that needs to be sold, the doctor looks after the patients asks them to buy the exact medicines they are supposed to sell, the soldier fights +
The soldier fights not just at borders but also inside whenever a group stands up against this idea of utilitarian growth created using their raw resources and in the process excluding them. +