It has for several generations being a mark of sophistication to disavow any nationalistic emotion.

The problem is that ignoring nationalism doesn't make it go away.

It leaves it unguided and undeveloped, ready for exploitation by the worst voices in a society we are capable of doing without nationalism.

So the challenge is to find our way to the better kinds.

The desire to feel proud of one's community is a natural and noble impulse.

We just need sophisticated ways of directing our urge for pride.

Collective pride is so important because there's never enough to be proud off in a single life.

Nationalism takes the pressure off all of us.

It lightens the oppressive responsibility but otherwise feel to ensure that our own lives, but always be stellar and heroic.

That's why patriotism invariably proves especially appealing after those who have the narrowest opportunities in a society, a fact that elites have not always treated with the requisite compassion with well focused nationalism.

We don't have to do it all ourselves.

We can find happiness in something in which we have a small state, but that goes far beyond us.

If our longing for collective pride were taken more seriously, we learn to invest more money and energy in things that were owned by everyone because we'd recognize that this would include us.

It may be gratifying to own a luxury car, but there's something properly starting about being a part owner, along with 300 million others of a collection of next generation high speed trains that crossed the land close to the speed of sound.

What are the ideal targets for national pride?

The ancient Spartans directed their pride towards military strength.

Their neighbors thehe Feeny INS felt proud of the beauty of the Parthenon, the quality of their playwrights and the wisdom of their philosophers.

A really fine society is not one that's outgrown collective pride.

It's one where people are proud of genuinely great and admirable things.

As a philosophical thought experiment, let's imagine the citizens of a future utopian society being asked to list some of the things that they were collectively proudest off in their society.

It's not just that there are a few standout famous buildings.

Citizens are proud of the diffuse general beauty of their urban environments.

In this utopia, it's normal for a very ordinary street to look exceptionally charming.

There's a lot of censorship over public advertising and sign Ege.

It's entirely straightforward to get divorced, but people tend not to, because of the collective investment in this stage is leading up to marriage on because of the sophisticated support provided by the state when things get tricky, the Ministry of Human Relationships has a powerful voice at the Cabinet table.

No government would ever contemplate cutting back its budget.

Public owners are taken very seriously.

But what's really notable is what they're given for the encouragement of maturity, the display of wisdom, the promotion of beauty and the alignment of profit with the meeting of our higher needs.

It's a country obsessed with celebrities.

One of the top celebrities is a part time waiter in a cafe and is widely regarded as the most well balanced person in the country.

His attitude to shoes, travel, he loves going camping near the lakes and relationships have been highly influential.

Another public hero is a primary school teacher.

She is deeply admired for her freestyle dancing and her attempts to deal with her an annual event which takes place early in the evening.

On the second of October, everyone takes time, usually around 15 minutes, to contemplate the sky.

There's quite a bit of buildup.

Celebrities discuss their favorite kinds of clouds on why these means so much to them on what they're hoping to see.

This year, the elderly reminisce about a spectacular 2010.

It's not illegal, even particularly frowned upon, to drink alcohol.

But they drink so much elderflower and other core deals because on the whole they're very keen on keeping cheerful and focused.

Good government is not dependent upon which particular elected representative is in charge, mostly the issues which affect everyone's life, a link to policies which have developed an applied over many years.

Elections tend not to be about the personality of party leaders, but Maura about tweaks to the direction in which the state is traveling.

The richest person in the country is a psychoanalyst.

The country has the world's most beautiful network of public swimming pools.

On average, the heads of primary schools earned more than financiers.

There's a national reputation for being tactful.

Health insurance plans cover treatment for addiction to Internet pornography.

We've been too sensitive about what can go wrong around various kinds of collective pride.

The rallies in your Umberg evoke a constant fear of collective aggression and insanity.

Pride and genuinely good things creates a powerful and hugely welcome sense of belonging.

It s wages.

Loneliness on provides benign motivation in a secular, complex and specialized world.

We need to feel that we're not just stray individuals dependent for our esteem on our own achievements, but also that we are members of a wider entity for which we're prepared to work and make wise sacrifices a nation which, to put it romantically, we can feel ready to love our book.

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