the way people think about themselves and their relationships (their personal ecosystem) flows into how they think about their country and the collective national ego and groupthink.
the healthiest way to be as an individual is to make yourself as awesome as possible, dont give a shiiit about external validation, be confident in your own skin, have a strong "gate"(ie no one is allowed into your ecosystem if they are a diickhead) and you have no tolerance for idiots.
thats how to be healthy as an individual.
if you apply these principles to a country, then you just make your country awesome, strong borders, dont tolerate BS.
an awesome club, an awesome resturant....strong door, bouncers, you have to book, only the best get in.
(thats how you run your resturant, club, country ...if you want it to be successful).
If you want to have a shiiiit club, a shiiit resturant, a shiit country, then you be like mcdonalds,
no awesome food, no gate, any loser can come in, in fact gimmicks to get them thru the door , like free coke or fries (welfare could be an analogy on a national level).
If you run a low life pub, same goes, no good music, just pokies, smelly losers in singlets and thongs, no hot chicks, no pride, no standards, no celebrities.
If you want to be gimmicky, mediocre, have low standards and be a fairly boring uninspiring place, then apply Mrs Merkels recipe for constructing an ecosystem.
you could have been awesome but you chose mediocre....why would you do that?
success barriers
limiting beliefs
self fulfilling prophesies.
Negative and neurotic thinking(group thinking) on a national scale.