We must plant trees, grow gardens instead of lawns, ride bicycles when we can and support responsible local businesses over big brands.

Nationalism is a form of cultural self-centeredness, and as a collective thought-form, can only exist because the dominant in-group is itself comprised of self-centered and narcissistic individuals.

Extreme nationalism objectifies and dehumanizes those from other countries.

The existence of excessive nationalism is a symptom of a deeper problem in the collective consciousness, which is continually being exploited.

There is a grand union beyond nationalism which serves all people, and which is rooted in what is real, versus what has been created or produced.

Nationalism as we know it, is the result of a form of state-sponsored branding.

The offspring of nationalist thinking too often expresses itself in exclusionary and passively-violent legal policies, and then sadly, through militarism, which becomes manifest on the endless blood-soaked borders and battlefields of humanity's great failure as a humane species.