You Don't Need to Tell the Truth About a Nation

I think one of the key points here in your work is it's not about telling bigger and bigger, more complex truths that that unite us. It's actually simple fictions that are able to tell us we will go to monkey heaven if we inor whatever. The different stories that we can get ourselves to believe cohere us exactly. You don't need to tell the truth in order to get a lot of people to co operate. You need a good story which could be completely ridiculous, but if enough believe it, it works. For me, nationalism is not about hating foreigners. It's about loving millions of strangers that you never met.