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We announce the birth of a conceptual country, NUTOPIA. Citizenship of the country can be obtained by declaration of your awareness of NUTOPIA. NUTOPIA has no land, no boundaries, no passports, only people. NUTOPIA has no laws other than cosmic. All people of NUTOPIA are ambassadors of the country. As two ambassadors of NUTOPIA, we ask for diplomatic immunity and recognition in the United Nations of our country and our people.

John Lennon#14

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About this quote

What does it mean?
Lennon declares the formation of NUTOPIA, a conceptual country based on awareness rather than land or laws.
In plain terms
He proposes a nation without borders where citizenship comes from knowing about it.
What can you take from it?
Ideas can form communities without physical boundaries.

Where it applies

  • artistic statements
  • activism
  • philosophical debates

Putting it to work

  • creating conceptual art
  • advocating peace
  • redefining citizenship

Questions to consider

  • Can a country exist without land?
  • What defines citizenship?

Another view

It functions more as art than a viable political entity.

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