Herds

1) In the capitalist view, nations are herds of bleating sheep to be fleeced, milked, and butchered. Nothing more. Consumers. In America, this herd is 'free' to bleat ineffectually, and this serves as a relief to exhaust any force that may accumulate. Corporations use governments and their militaries to gain and hold the exclusive right of exploitation over these herds, while at the same time defending their own herds from being exploited by foreign corporations and their associated national governments and militaries. A nation, as a conglomeration of rapacious economic interests combined with governmental and military apparatuses, triumphs by making itself appear to foreign herds as the more attractive shepherd.

2) Nations are conceptual fencing to contain herds. They are figmentous. They are lines painted on roads. Like money, they do not actually exist. The concept of a nation is a fiction, a metaphor for a corral to keep a herd within its fences.