There is a vast difference between Nationalism and patriotism.
A Nationalist feels it is his nation, right or wrong and only is nation may
ever be right. Recently that was being sold to several democracies by their
supposed leaders, and their corporate media lap dogs, as being Patriotic,
where as it was promoting fascism.
Where as a Patriot will fight for the precepts, the constitution and Bill of
Rights against all comers, foreign and domestic.
There is nothing wrong with being Liberal or Conservative, some of both is
always necessary if one will evaluate the necessities of the circumstance,
but even Liberal Conservative now are used by supposedly opposing American
political parties, as meaning something completely different from the
dictionaries of the 1960's much less 1900. Not just what they call each
other, but what they themselves claim to be.
As I have screamed about for a few decades now, they've even stolen out
dictionaries and few complain.
Scott
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From: olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Chris Barker
Sent: Sunday, March 11, 2007 3:13 AM
To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [OM] OT Nationality, was Communications [was lighting]
I enjoyed reading that, Marc, thanks.
But communities like nations are fabrications, really. Not many
people (:-)) have volunteered to be born the nationality that they
are and to opt out once you have lived the nationality is pretty
difficult for most.
I was born in India and lived in many different countries before
settling in the UK -- I spent only a few months at a time in the UK
before I left school (indeed I was educated in Aden, Bahrain and
Singapore until I was 9). I have travelled the world and I want now
to remain in the UK because I have seen enough other places and
communities to know that, for all its faults, it's the best place to be.
And, a propos your quote, you might wish to try a book "Shadow of the
Wind" by Carlos Ruiz Zafón. I haven't finished it yet, but the quote
reminded me of it.
Chris
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C M I Barker
Cambridgeshire, Great Britain.
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On 11 Mar 2007, at 09:02, Marc Lawrence wrote:
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> It grinds me down after a while. I think it's more important to
> be me than it is to be Australian, but it's bloody hard to be
> authentic me when being an authentic Australian is a "LOVE IT
> OR LEAVE IT" proposition amongst more and more "Aussie" company.
>
> To pervert a Ballard quote "In a completely normal world, madness
> is the only freedom".
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