Dainius Varnas. on Hope, Nation-States and Their End

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The starting point for this comment should be the famous statement of US President J. F. Kennedy: “Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.” It seems that we live in a time when modern man is increasingly moving away from the state. He no longer wants to give anything, he only demands it. The state is becoming desacralized, becoming less and less significant in the life of an individual citizen. I clearly f…