We could also wrongly combine the quality of patriotism with nationalism.
It should be clear what is meant.

Lol
Because you are conscious!
Consciousness is all there is. There is no such thing as unconsciousness. Unconsciousness is an illusion.
Anything you imagine, including non-existence or unconsciousness is happening within consciousness!
So non-existence is actually impossible. You have to be vary careful here not to conflate objects within consciousness with consciousness itself. Pure empty consciousness cannot be destroyed. Objects within consciousness arise and pass away all the time, like images on a TV screen.
If you're coming from the materialist paradigm, you hold consciousness is a biological product of a material reality. This is completely incorrect. Consciousness is not a biological or even a physical thing. It has nothing to do with your body or brain, or even life.

So ok, as a preface I am not fond of genocide, injustice, or any other intuitively immoral thing. But. Was Hitler actually wrong? A man with a passionate beautiful vision actively perusing and succeeding in its achievement. Same could be said about Gandhi, Stalin, Alexander the great, Napoleon, Mussolini, etc.. able to draw insane levels of passionate motivation for their life purpose, to do what it takes. Many exemplary people have dedicated their life to a nation its people, its conceptual idea in order to lead it to a better state, to fix its problem. Understandably  tribalism, however why not? if its your true passion. For example if you're a Kurdish self aware gifted person struggling in the injustice done to your nation is there a real issue in him attempting create a united Kurdish state with him as dictator? I don't think so... is there something I may be overlooking?

What does "existence" mean when we talk about it? This is a tricky thing. Let me draw the following picture.
There is a level of existence that we usually consider "physical" or "materialistic". You can argue about the terms, that's not the point now. I now call it the physical level (Ep) for simplicity's sake.
As living beings we experience many things "physically". But we exist mentally. I.e., mentally we exist on a new level (Em), which lies on the physical level (Ep). At the same time we often speak of a "divine" level (Eg), which we suspect to be behind the "physical" level and about which we cannot say anything else because it is not accessible from our mental level. It would have to happen from the divine level that something shows itself to us that we usually consider "supernatural".
Now let's assume that someone has written a new computer game, a program, in which one of our characters receives an intelligence virtually, so to speak, so that it actually becomes aware that it exists as a character in a computer program. This character would just not call that "game character" and "computer program", but her "person" and her "world". The programmer or administrator of the program would now be "God" for the character. The running program would be the physical level and the character's own dynamics the mental level.
That is now only a picture. But with this I want to show that the concept of existence can be relative, depending on which level you look up or down from. I.e. not that it has to be like this, but we know for ourselves nevertheless that we know the physical and the mental level, and that we don't necessarily exclude that there can be further levels above and below and that life can feel similar no matter from which level. So the concept of the respective level of existence, whether physical or not, may be relative.
But to speak of existence, no matter what level, is absolute, because there is logically no opposite to existence, no non-existence, because that would imply existence. Moreover, we know from this observation that the physical level for the mental level is always primordinal.

That's a nice game.

It's as if you're watching the TV news and the speaker in the program suddenly realizes that he doesn't take the news seriously anymore.
It's as if you're sitting in a trial and the chairman suddenly realizes that he's the arbitrary judge.... about you.
It's like filing your tax return with the IRS and someone in the office suddenly realizes it's your money at all.

The direct experience of another person can be completely superior. This person is one with us. But we do not recognize their superiority one with us. That is why we need government. No. It was a joke.

Why Leo say you are God? All the enlightened peoples on the earth from the history up to now didn't claim you are God. Jesus, mohamhed, buddha, etc. What is going on self actualizers?