Roko's Baselisk, an omnipotent computer god that by knowing about them, indebts you into constructing them as voraciously as possible, or else they will smite you across time. The Game, the only rule of which is that if you think about the Game, you lose. A colonial sentiment of having to spread God to the Indigenous peoples of Turtle Island in order to the save them, and yet had they not known about God and been unable to choose faith, would've actually left them more innocent. According to such theology, and others may agree in other terms, it was the church which doomed the Indigenous populations. Similarly, the idea of owning land; not that's conceptually infective, but to not to concede to that idea allows you to be taken advantage of and so forces you to subscribe. Much of this has to do with an epistemelogical tangent of realpolitik and collective action problems. All of these have something in common with the undeniability of the nation, where the projection of its borders forces every other nation to think of if not also enforce their borders. And now its entered, no longer detachable, into me, and us.