Re: BEER ch 88,89—Beyond Good and Evil

[Robin Landseadel]

And then there's trans-national "Corporatism" and the needs of  
technology itself, screaming "feed me, feed me!", rockets louder than  
the voices trapped in the inner city's labyrinth.

"Dave, this conversation can serve no purpose anymore. Goodbye. "

On Nov 21, 2013, at 3:57 AM, Fiona Shnapple wrote:

> By ‘nationalism’ I mean first of all the habit of assuming that human
> beings can be classified like insects and that whole blocks of
> millions or tens of millions of people can be confidently labelled
> ‘good’ or ‘bad’(1). But secondly — and this is much more important — I
> mean the habit of identifying oneself with a single nation or other
> unit, placing it beyond good and evil and recognising no other duty
> than that of advancing its interests. Nationalism is not to be
> confused with patriotism. Both words are normally used in so vague a
> way that any definition is liable to be challenged, but one must draw
> a distinction between them, since two different and even opposing
> ideas are involved. By ‘patriotism’ I mean devotion to a particular
> place and a particular way of life, which one believes to be the best
> in the world but has no wish to force on other people. Patriotism is
> of its nature defensive, both militarily and culturally. Nationalism,
> on the other hand, is inseparable from the desire for power. The
> abiding purpose of every nationalist is to secure more power and more
> prestige, not for himself but for the nation or other unit in which he
> has chosen to sink his own individuality.
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notes_on_Nationalism
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PpRKstHl7Y0&list=PL19E47075893D110E
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