Then how come everyone's making like everything that isn't important is very important, all the while they're so busy pretending what's really important isn't important at all?

Everything begins only to end. The moment you were born you began to die. That's how it is with everything.

From the moment we are born, we begin to die.

Then how come everyone's making like everything that isn't important is very important, all the while they're so busy pretending what's really important isn't important at all?

The Nation State as such is totally a construction: what we feel for it in terms of habits, traditions, countryside or nature could exist without the notion of Nation.

We need to realise we are Europeans before we belong to a region or a Nation.