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People have always been manipulated by the state (a great

number of people fought and died in wars on behalf of the
state).

This division between personal and state interests creates

antagonistic relations. People living within the borders of

their own state have the feeling that the state protects the

interests of its citizens. This attitude of the state and of the

people living in it distorts and threatens the personal benefit
of the individual living in the state.

The individual always wants to get personal benefit and to

be happy and contented. The personal benefit can only be

gained from the benefit of the whole. The whole is its only
creator. State benefit compromises and degrades the

benefit of the individual and the whole. It suppresses

happiness and disturbs people’s serenity throughout the

world.

People want to be happy, but happiness is a transient

feeling, short-lived and elusive. There is no long-term
happiness. The desired eternal happiness is an abstraction

and has never been attained. Eternal happiness exists only

in the whole.

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