Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on February 19, 2004 12:22 AM
You are blind by a love for an abstract ideal, country, in prejudice of your love for a fellow human being.
States, which is what countries are, some of them being nation-states, are a modern invention going back to the Treaty of Westphalia. There is nothing natural or real about Germany or France or the US. These are in the words of B. Anderson "imagined communities". Read a little about nationalism and the perils of hypernationalism.
Now, human beings, on the other hand, are very real. They have eyes that see and hearts that beat. You know how they feel and you know how real they are, because presumably you think of yourself as one.
And thanks to globalization and the easyy access it provides for those of us that are fortunate enough to own a computer and to lease an internet connection, we can make bonds with people that transcend the state. And when we do, we aspire to something much higher and much bigger than the state. If you push me, I would say that we aspire to greatness and to kindness.
Thus, it is but the biggest travesty of the human spirit that a man would repudiate helping his fellow human beings and have them be sacrificed at the corporate altar of profit.
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on February 19, 2004 12:22 AMStates, which is what countries are, some of them being nation-states, are a modern invention going back to the Treaty of Westphalia. There is nothing natural or real about Germany or France or the US. These are in the words of B. Anderson "imagined communities". Read a little about nationalism and the perils of hypernationalism.
Now, human beings, on the other hand, are very real. They have eyes that see and hearts that beat. You know how they feel and you know how real they are, because presumably you think of yourself as one.
And thanks to globalization and the easyy access it provides for those of us that are fortunate enough to own a computer and to lease an internet connection, we can make bonds with people that transcend the state. And when we do, we aspire to something much higher and much bigger than the state. If you push me, I would say that we aspire to greatness and to kindness.
Thus, it is but the biggest travesty of the human spirit that a man would repudiate helping his fellow human beings and have them be sacrificed at the corporate altar of profit.
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