Philosophical Anarchology of Patriotism and(28/30)

 

Philosophical Anarchology of Patriotism and the Philosophical Anarchopathology of Homelandosis(28/30)

Mahmoud Sadeghi Janbahan

Translated by Maryam Sadeghi 


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

Opening the Window of Freedom: From Homeland as a Supreme Identity Symbol to Homeland as a Horizon of Dignity in Anarchic Existence

The concept of homeland has, for centuries, been shaped under the shadows of power’s myth-making into a tool of distinction, discrimination, and submission. In dominant narratives, homeland is not a matter of ethical choice or voluntary belonging but one of fate, inheritance, and imposition. Within such a structure, borders are sanctified, soil outweighs dignity, and blind loyalty replaces reflection and choice.

From the perspective of philosophical anarchology, nationalism as a form of patriotism does not only lack any ethical connection to human dignity but represents a type of cognitive and moral disorder. It is a pathology that imprisons human beings within the cages of ethnic, racial, linguistic, and territorial biases—thus stripping them of the possibility of free, global coexistence.

In opposition to such fanatical nationalism, philosophical anarchology opens a new horizon: homeland is redefined not as a sacred land but as a horizon for the realization of freedom, justice, and human dignity. Within this view, belonging becomes an ethical and voluntary act, not an imposed and inherited condition. Homeland is not a site of obedience, but a ground for the flourishing of free will. Wherever one can choose freely and live with dignity—that is homeland, even if it is borderless.

Thus, from a philosophical anarchological view, homeland-detachment is not a denial of roots, but a conscious departure from imposed belongings toward liberating, ethical, and chosen affiliations. Statelessness, in this framework, is a mode of ethical global life in which the human being is not an instrument of state, nation, or power, but a free, creative, and morally responsible subject.

In a world where borders produce violence and homeland becomes a pretext for exclusion and hatred, perhaps the most radical ethical act is to redefine homeland—not as a cage of pride, but as a possibility for coexistence, dignity, and freedom.

Patriotism as Disorder: A Philosophical Anarchopathological Analysis of Homelandosis

In the lens of philosophical anarchopathology, extreme patriotism is not a natural tendency or merely a political position, but a form of systemic cognitive, ethical, and philosophical pathology. This disorder encodes the mind and language of individuals within a network of myths concerning power, land, borders, and nation. It compels the individual to locate identity not in freedom, dignity, and choice, but in imposed belonging and the sanctification of soil.

This form of homelandosis (patriotoxication) distances individuals from experiencing themselves as ethical and autonomous subjects, reducing them instead to obedient, thoughtless components of domination systems. Homeland ceases to be a space of shared life and becomes a field of submission and control. Moral courage is exchanged for blind loyalty; free will is suffocated by fear, compliance, and flattery.

Loyalty to homeland, in this context, is not an act of free and conscious commitment but the result of pathologically engineered identity. The human being is reduced from an ethical subject to a blood-bound, ethnic, or territorial unit. Homeland becomes a tool for the exclusion of the Other, and borders become instruments of violence.

Philosophical anarchopathology seeks not only to expose this pathology but to offer pathways of healing—by returning the human to the field of moral courage, liberating autonomy, and ethical relations rooted in choice and dignity. Homeland, in this sense, only acquires meaning when it is accompanied by freedom, justice, and coexistence—not hatred, discrimination, and obedience.

In this way, extreme patriotism is not merely a symptom of identity crisis, but the most systematic form of moral identity loss in the modern world—a disease that can only be cured through transcending borders and approaching the horizon of freedom.


Citation:

Sadeghi Janbahan, Mahmoud. (2025). The Philosophical Anarchology of Patriotism and the Philosophical Anarchopathology of Homelandosis (28/30): From Homelandosis as a Prison to Cosmopolitanism as the Horizon of Anarchic Freedom.

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