The Myth of the Nation

There needs to be some kind of establishment of an identity that can be understood, grasped and placed on a world map chart. Yet this is all on paper of course and it isn't really the reality which is what Baba is getting at precisely because as he just stated, it produces a continual slippage of categories. How do we then understand the homogeneity of modernity? If pushed too far may assume something resembling the archaic body of the despotic or totalitarian mass.