"If you step back from life and try to zoom out your lens a bit you could already picture each country as their own organism with cells (humans) running around keeping things running. To someone with a big enough view each country probably already looks like a single consciousness."

THAT's it. That's exactly the point I am trying to get across. It seems like people haven't noticed this paradigm cause they haven't thought about it. Once you visualize it, it becomes really hard to not think of nations in terms of multi-human organisms.

- Kevat Shah