the modern state as a suburban house lot

[alice wellintown]

Convenient? How is this a convenience? For whom? Jews? For Nazis? For
anti-Semites? For WASPS? In America? In Israel? Wha? This reads like
Melville's very famous Fast Fish. Only P's argument seems to suck its
own tail.

What was America in 1492 but a Loose-Fish, in which Columbus struck
the Spanish standard by way of wailing it for his royal master and
mistress? What was Poland to the Czar? What Greece to the Turk? What
India to England? What at last will Mexico be to the United States?
All Loose-Fish.

What are the Rights of Man and the Liberties of the World but
Loose-Fish? What all men's minds and opinions but Loose-Fish? What is
the principle of religious belief in them but a Loose-Fish? What to
the ostentatious smuggling verbalists are the thoughts of thinkers but
Loose-Fish? What is the great globe itself but a Loose-Fish? And what
are you, reader, but a Loose-Fish and a Fast-Fish, too?



On 9/30/09, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> John Bailey wrote:
> "What is the modern state," Yitzhak declared, "but a suburban
> > house-lot taken up to a larger scale? Anti-Semitism flows directly
> > from the suburban fear of those always on the move, who set up camp
> > for a night, or pay rent, unlike the Good Citizen who believes he
> > 'owns' his home, although it is more likely to be owned by a bank,
> > perhaps even a Jewish bank. Everyone must live in a simply connected
> > space with an unbroken line around it. Some put hair ropes, to keep
> > snakes out. Any who live outside property-lines of any scale are
> > automatically a threat to the suburban order and by extension the
> > State. Conveniently, Jews have this history of statelessness." AtD 185
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> More anti-Stateness from TRP....I think in AtD one of the themes is
> where in the past were the natural lands of people before Nation-states
> started wars over boundaries......
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> and I somehow think those ancient lands are akin to the ancient seas under maritime law...............
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