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We held the idea of a nation in our heads. The
great
fiction was that total strangers could maintain a
common thread.
It didn't last for long and we couldn't fix the
problem,
so we decided to change the world around us
instead. We cultivated
new variants. We built machines. We rewired
our brains
to organize a brand new society. But our
machines did not
tell us what to do with them. The instruction
manual
for them did not say how to build a nation. The
blueprint
was in our heads, but it was in shreds. A
machine had concluded
that scrambling our brains solved the problem
of being human.
The Idea of a Nation
by Tim Kahl
RABBLE REVIEW No.3
Page: 50
