On the mentality of the colonized

You can’t have an independent nation without a sovereign mindset of its citizens. A truly independent nation must have well-defined elites that ensure the direction of that nation, both domestically and in foreign policy, is always in the nation’s best interest, regardless of what other nations and geopolitical blocks think.

The independent nation’s citizens, while critical of certain aspects of their nation, feel proud to be citizens and aren’t shy to show their pride to the world. The citizens with a soverign mindset are going to defend their homeland to the death and will do so with a smile on their face. The citizens of a sovereign nation are, to an extent, militarized. They know how to use a gun. Some would go even further and say only nuclear powers are truly sovereign, but the world seems to be more complex than that.

The citizens of the truly independent nation know their nation is worth defending at any cost. They don’t need campaigns and incentives reminding them of that fact. It’s self-evident.

The sovereign mindset of the nation’s citizens is the apex of national consciousness which then translates into that particular nation’s independence and the willingness to fight for it.

Now, the opposite of that mindset is what I call the mindset of the colonized. Be it by a series of demeaning defeats, a divine emasculating curse, or the victors reshaping the defeated nation’s mentality to ensure the defeated aggressor nation no longer poses a threat, the mindset of the colonized is about praising foreign influences while denigrating one’s own achievements, one’s own language in favor of a foreign language (hardly surprising, as the huge part of the colonization of the mind by the enemy is banning the defeated nation’s langauge), and always comparing one’s nation with the other nations. Not healthy comparisons by any means, but obsessive comparisons similar to someone green with envy.

The tragedy of the colonized mind is that even when the nation regains independence, the colonized mindset persists in many of its citizens. So, while free on paper, the citizens continue to have the colonized mindset.

Not all citizens, of course, as no nation is a monolith and people come from all walks of life, but there’s an underlying mentality, a noxious narrative the citizens of the mentally colonized nation tell themselves about their place in the world without even realizing it.

The nation with the colonized mindset struggles with its identity and, indeed, with having agency, which invites external forces to steer the direction of that nation, be it openly or from behind the scenes. Metaphysically put, if you put out intent, the universe shall answer.

Indeed, the citizens of a nation that had its mindset colonized by the victors often struggle with collective guilt for their nation’s crimes which makes them less assertive and more apologetic. Even if the citizens don’t want to be that way, it’s been drilled into them.

Mind you, the colonized mindset can be found anywhere. It isn’t just about the places we stereotypically associate with it, like Africa. It can be found in Europe and elsewhere.

I’m a fan of the multiverse, and I don’t dismiss the possibility there are endless realities existing concurrently with our own. We can’t see them or interact with them for a variety of reasons but mystics talk about them, psychics talk about them, even prophets talk about them. And if you’re only about what we currently understand as science, then yes – physicists very much talk about them, too.

And it would be cool to see how a nation that’s an empire in one reality, is a puppet state in another.

Israel has a well-established place in the world thanks to the clearly-defined proud identity of its citizens and their willingness to work in Israel’s best interest. That’s vital and admirable. Yes, I know there are always those who roll their eyes and say, ”Nonsense,” but I’m talking generally, about millions, and not about some Israeli citizen who happens to hate Israel for whatever reason.

Ukraine, as terrible as the war is, has forged its identity in the crucible of fire. Everyone in the world knows Ukraine now, unless one is a total ignoramus or mentally deranged.

Independence and sovereignty aren’t just about lines on the map. First and foremost, it’s about the mindset. If the mind gets colonized, then no lines drawn on the map are going to magically make that mindset go away.

Fighting for nation’s independence to ensure the nation’s citizens don’t have their minds colonized by the enemy. As long as the mind isn’t colonized, the enemy loses. But if the mind gets colonized, the enemy wins – even when the aggressor is driven out of the land, the legacy of the colonized mind persists.