see, this is why I like working with the ChatGPT: it often suggests thing in the middle of sentences that are good launching points. It mentioned someone who thought like me that I never heard of, “Benedict Anderson”. I looked him up. And yes, I like it:
He came up with the concept of “imagined community” with a nation as a good example:
“regardless of the actual inequality and exploitation that may prevail in each, the nation is always conceived as a deep, horizontal comradeship. Ultimately it is this fraternity that makes it possible, over the past two centuries, for so many millions of people, not so much to kill, as willingly to die for such limited imaginings”