Philosophical Anarchology of Patriotism and (22/30)


Philosophical Anarchology of Patriotism and the Philosophical Anarchopathology of Homelandosis  (22/30)

Mahmoud Sadeghi Janbahan

Translated by Maryam Sadeghi 



Philosophical Anarchological Elucidation of Homeland, Borders, and Identity in the Existential Perspective of Anarchic and Free Life


Exile from Homeland as a Revolt Against Homelandosis

Within the framework of philosophical anarchology, national identity, when it transcends the boundaries of history and geography to become a sacred, unchallengeable symbol, assumes a domination-oriented function. It becomes a tool for suppressing difference, imposing identity, and expelling the “Other” from the realm of humanity. In such a context, the homeland ceases to be a space of free living and becomes an ideological apparatus for uniformity, obedience, and ultimately, a disgusting form of nationalism and racism.

Exile from homeland in this structure is not a retreat from responsibility, but rather a moral and cognitive revolt against the exaggerated belief in nationality. This exile is a creative defiance against official languages, enforced loyalty, nationalist honor, and unconditional fidelity to land and flag. The one who flees the homeland stands against this sanctified narrative and asks: Which identity? For whose dignity? At what cost?

This revolt opens the possibility of reconstructing the homeland—not as an empty symbol, but as a space for liberatory reflection on belonging, identity, and coexistence. In this reconstruction, nationality falls from its sacred pedestal and becomes a form of elective choice—one that must remain open to ethical critique and continuous reevaluation.

From the viewpoint of philosophical anarchology, conscious exile from homeland is the first step toward the disenchantment of nationalism and the reclaiming of the human being as a free moral agent. This exile is an invitation to return to the universal self of humanity—one that, before being nationalized, is free, choosing, and dignified.


Exile from Homeland as the Possibility of Global Coexistence

In the logic of philosophical anarchology, belonging, when it is compulsory, fixed, and imposed, is not a virtue but a covert form of domination—a kind of dependency that confines human freedom within the frames of ethnicity, soil, race, or nationality. Against this caged belonging, exile from homeland becomes an ethical and conceptual passage toward a new kind of connection—one that is free, responsible, and global, grounded in difference, choice, and human dignity.

This connection does not arise from erasing identity but from reconstructing choice in relation to the Other. In this sense, exile is a break from structures that turn belonging into a mechanism of exclusion, discrimination, and hatred. It opens a space in which homeland is not inherited through birth, but chosen as an ethical commitment to coexistence without domination.

In the anarchological horizon, exile from homeland leads us from forced belonging to free human connection—to a world where borders are not walls but possibilities of passage, where homelands are not monopolies but expressions of diversity, and identities are not weapons but beautiful pretexts for living together. This transition is not the end of homeland, but the beginning of a global, polyphonic homeland—where each person can live with the Other without fear of exclusion or imposition.

Thus, exile from homeland becomes the sublime form of a renewed attachment—an attachment to a world where dignity precedes territory, and choice outweighs obedience.

Homeland Is Where Being Human Remains Possible

From the perspective of philosophical anarchology, homeland acquires real meaning only when one can remain human within it. This remaining human does not merely signify physical survival but living ethically, freely, and with the capacity to choose. If homeland becomes a dwelling of obedience, coercion, discrimination, or silence, it is no longer a home—but a prison of sanctified concepts that bury freedom in the name of identity.

In this view, homeland is an ethical and human concept—not a natural or blood-bound one. It is where one can live without shame for being different, and without being excluded for language, ethnicity, thought, or dissent. Homeland is not born from soil, but from freedom. Conversely, where thinking is dangerous, dissent is a crime, and difference causes rejection, homeland becomes merely a name for the exile of the self.

From this standpoint, the human being is not, first and foremost, a citizen of a particular country, but a moral, dignity-seeking, and free being. Homeland must protect this priority—not obstruct it. True homeland, therefore, lies not in passports and borders, but where one can remain unruled, think without fear, and live without humiliation.

And if no such place exists, then homeland becomes not an external reality, but an inner calling to build a world that has not yet arrived—a homeland yet to be created, not for one ethnicity, but for every human who wishes to remain human.

Citation:

Sadeghi Janbahan, Mahmoud. (2025). Philosophical Anarchology of Patriotism and the Philosophical Anarchopathology of Homelandosis (22/30): From Homelandosis as a Prison to Cosmopolitanism, the Horizon of Freedom in Anarchic Life.

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