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So you think it makes sense to equate nationalism with individualism?
We can see, in the RW, that personal or national merit is always accounted to the individual, or not so.
There is, imo, no real [recognition of] virtue in any collectivism. .....collectivism tends to drown out [beat down ?] any [individuals] who are indeed meritorious, until they become indistinguishable from the next Joe.
God, wants to know 'who' we are. [Tares and the Wheat]
And God does know, who we are.
Isaiah 42:8
I am the LORD: that is my name: and my glory will I not give to another, neither my praise to graven images.
Isaiah 48:11
For mine own sake, even for mine own sake, will I do it: for how should my name be polluted? and I will not give my glory unto another.
For our own virtue
and our own well-being, in life, we ought to seek to separate what is precious from what is vile.
In doing so, treasure can be discovered.
Jeremiah 15:19
Therefore thus saith the LORD, If thou return, then will I bring thee again, and thou shalt stand before me: and if thou take forth the precious from the vile, thou shalt be as my mouth: let them return unto thee; but return not thou unto them.
HAVE YOU GLIMPSED INFINITY ?
Collectivism, overwhelmingly, remains just a 'sewage pit' of 'lowest-common-denominator' [low] achievers.
As an individual, is your 'ambition', really, only to join yourself, to a 'menage' such as that ?