Allen Ginsberg, "America" (was Re: Patriotism)

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Wed Feb 23 20:29:47 PST 2000


JKSCHW at aol.com wrote:


>One time when I was speaking against the coming Gulf War at OSU
>in the fall of 90 to a pretty decent sized audience, I had a young ROTC type
>attack my patriotism. I said, if I didn't care about my country, why would I
>be doing this?

Why your country? Why not solidarity with the people your country was attacking? Why do some geographical borders and a nation-state define a special kind of feeling for you?

Doug



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