• NutWrench@lemmy.world
    101·
    9 个月前

    The idea that “things don’t exist when we stop believing in them” is something that most of us outgrow at an early age.

    • nonentity@sh.itjust.works
      5·
      9 个月前

      Object permanence applies to tangible objects, basically things explained by physics and constituted from energy.

      A nation is a construct of collective imagination, much like religion and economics.

      National patriotism is a religion which worships dirt.