Telmo: did you research WHERE would you migrate FREELY to find all those goodies? I did for awhile before I had a chance to DO it and got nowhere. The "global rottenness" abounds. John M
On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 5:44 AM, Telmo Menezes <[email protected]>wrote: > On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 11:21 PM, John Mikes <[email protected]> wrote: > > And what good does it do to H A V E nations? Starting wars? Looking > down > > on every other nation? Exploiting strangers/foreigners? > > Nationalism is a pest in the human world. > > You are right saying that it is - sort of - a religious aberration, > closely > > connected with religion itself. So the proposition may be true. > > Could anyone LIST the benefits of 'national' existence/feeling? > > (Forget about the secondaries: mother tongue, folk-music, lit, etc.) > > JM > > Well said John! > Just like religions, nations are an artefact from an era when there > wasn't anything better to scaffold civilisation. They are becoming > especially ridiculous in the Internet age. > > I would tolerate them better if you could migrate freely and chose the > one you like the most (in terms of laws, for example). Then they would > have to compete for citizens, and politicians would have a harder time > getting away with the sort of shenanigans they do nowadays -- > criminalisation of victimless behaviours, legislation on the private > sphere, unreasonable wars, humiliation in name of safety and so on. > The concept of "others" is very important to enslave the masses. > > Telmo. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
