Glenny, are you an American or something...? I can
understand your position if so, as you have no national tradition (paradoxally
the younger the country, the more xtreme its nationalism, like the US). Here in
Barcelona we have to deal with lots like you and with the same "argument" (?)
you expose. If you don't think nationalism is something natural or kinda that,
if you believe that nation is an invention of the powerful to control the poor
and the ignorant, you are so wrong! How do you call the cetaces' groupal
behavior (orchs (is it orchs or orks? I mean "killer whales"), dolphins and all
that stuff), obessed about protecting tgeir territori against strangers? Or even
better, how do you call primats' social and political behavior? Have you heard
about the "ape nations"? There's no a "cheetah conductual model" as there's no
"human conductual model", when they shoot those national geographic films about
apes they realise that each group is different (imagine those green alien guys
comig for a shot and landing in Alaska. What would they think about us? And if
they landed in Beijing?) and that apes' social structure is political, as ours
is. Nationalism is something natural, like it or not. The only problem is that
stupid antropocentrist sense of superiority towards animals we have that often
doesn't let us see evidence. The more developed an species is (and we're
supposed to be the most), the more complex is this behavior, not the weaker, as
you may think. And it's science.
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Sent: Friday, August 31, 2001 8:34
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Subject: [tied] Scientific Nationalism??
HAHAHAHAHA
Kalyanaraman:
>What is wrong with nationalism? The
history of civilizations of the last
>two centuries is a history of
adoring nationalism.
It's simple, Kal. Nationalism is based on
sentiment and is therefore
inheirantly illogical, having no place in
unbiased science and
theory. My conclusion is that nationalism is a type of
psychological
disorder, not unlike schizophrenia or dimentia, affecting a
patient's
sense of reality. Psychologists should be informed of the
symptoms
so that proper treatment can be
administered.
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