The collective "way of thinking" characteristic of the nation-state as an entity. It is defined by realpolitik, raison d'état (reason of state), border security, sovereignty disputes, national interest calculations, and the monopoly on legitimate violence. This cognition is not merely the sum of its citizens' thoughts; it is the institutional logic embedded in foreign ministries, intelligence agencies, and diplomatic corps that perpetuates a worldview of perpetual competition between bounded territorial units.
Example: When a refugee crisis emerges, Nation State Cognition immediately frames it as a problem of border security, asylum quotas, and national burden, rather than as a humanitarian crisis requiring a regional or global resettlement solution. The cognitive framework of the state cannot easily think beyond its own borders and legalisms.
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Example: Facing a rise in homelessness, a public conversation dominated by State Bias focuses solely on federal housing policy and municipal shelter funding, while ignoring or marginalizing effective grassroots initiatives like community land trusts or religious shelter networks that operate with different models.
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Get the State Bias mug.The unconscious predisposition to view the nation-state—a relatively modern construct of a bordered territory with a centralized government—as the natural, inevitable, and primary unit of human political organization. This bias leads to assuming global problems must have national solutions, that national identity is paramount, and that political maps divided into colored countries represent a fundamental reality, rather than a contingent, often violently imposed, administrative layer.
Example: When a pandemic hits, the immediate global response is framed by Nation State Bias: "What is France's policy? What is Brazil's strategy?" This overlooks more relevant units like cities, regions, or global supply chains, and creates competition for vaccines instead of coordinated, transnational public health planning.
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Last night, I was in a total flow state; the drinks were going down easy, the music was fire, and the whole night just clicked.
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Several members of Stately's fanbased have joked about one of his songs, Really be Dead, for its horrible quality. This has caused Stately to remove the song from his discography.
Several members of Stately's fanbased have joked about one of his songs, Really be Dead, for its horrible quality. This has caused Stately to remove the song from his discography.
Person 1: Have you listened to the new Stately song?
Person 2: Fuck no! That Stately mf makes really shit music!
Person 2: Fuck no! That Stately mf makes really shit music!
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Example: "If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear." This classic police state rationalization turns the presumption of innocence on its head, making privacy itself suspect. It justifies blanket surveillance by individualizing the threat and rationalizing the loss of liberty as a small price for the law-abiding to pay.
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