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QUOTE (Rush Cocky @ Oct 23 2009, 09:56 AM)
QUOTE (priest_of_syrinx @ Oct 22 2009, 05:02 PM)
Territories

Yep, I'd say this one also.

Love this one musically, but the standard cosmopolitan, self-congratulatory line valorizing the 'citizen of the world' is almost cringe-worthy ... not that we shouldn't respect other cultures of course, but I think abstract global interdependence is far inferior to local communities and the psychic indepedence that can result. Moreover, it's that kind of community that fosters the virtue, humanity, and love for particular persons and places, which makes loving humanity 'in the abstract' (in the truest sense--not just paying lip service to sound wonderful and enlightened at parties) possible in the first place. The lack of such local loyalities and affections is also a big piece of why we in the U.S. aren't really a democracy any more by any stretch.

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