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#192 - Rogue Explorer Discovers Mysterious 'Ghost Nation' Inside Europe | Eric Czuleger

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The Importance of Purpose in National Identity

A right to the future tense is this idea that when you can project your own personal identity into the future reasonably, and you can say, I'll be more productive. When it looks like things are getting worse for you, then suddenly you're going to cling to any ideology that promises you that future tense even if it doesn't actually bear any resemblance to reality. We've grown up in a nation thinking that the United States has been around, always will be around, and it's not going anywhere. Right? You know, the USSR crumbled into its constituent parts as soon as, as soon as independence movements started moving through the country. Mm. That was a 250 million person country

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