File spoon-archives/anarchy-list.archive/anarchy-list_2003/anarchy-list.0303, message 47


Date: Sun, 2 Mar 2003 21:39:44 -0800 (PST)
From: Maldoror <insektus-AT-yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: amerikan hegemony


> Been to England lately?  Or France?  Germany?   The
> US government may have 
> the bombs and guns, but as a people, we're not ahead
> of anybody in the 
> school of cultural chauvinism.  

for what it's worth, my  wife studied in spain,
england, the U$, and tunisia and she said basically
the same thing dave had said, which was that in her
travels she'd never seen the amount of patriotism for
a country that she's seen in the U$.

if the masses don't believe in the country's gov't why
wave the flag? when it comes down to it the flag
represents the gov't that created it. the ppl who make
up the country are irrelevant, though the gov't says
it's ppl's patriotic and nationalistic duty to support
the gov'ts policies by waving it. is this not worthy
of suspicion?

i think a more important question is why is anyone
proud to be a member of a country? because one's
family is there? because they have roots there? it's
like ppl in the U$ thought 9/11 was such a tragedy
because americans whom they never met died but yet
don't give a shit if a million iraqis died in the
sanctions since the gulf war. why? what is the
connection to their american 'brothers' they never
met. they never met the iraqi who died in the
sanctions nor the american who died in the trade
center yet they rally like a bunch of sheep around the
american flag when 9/11 happened.

this is my big problem with nationalism is that it
creates these divisions whereby one person suffering
is elevated above the others suffering. nationalism in
many ways is a very dehumanizing apparatus that serves
no other purpose than to fill a void. it's akin to
religion in that way.

empty constructs the masters' perpetuate to serve the
power structure's goals.

gr3g

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"It is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship... Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy:  all you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country."

Nazi Reichsmarschall Hermann Goering, at the Nuremberg Trials


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