Saying Goodbye to Patriotism (by Robert Jensen)

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

>Yoshie Furuhashi channeling Robert Jensen:
>>Saying Goodbye to Patriotism
>
>While I found this article somewhat prolix, it does raise
>interesting questions: What are the boundaries of our
>moral concern, and why?  One is encircled by sets: self,
>family, neighborhood, tribe, ethnicity, nation, class,
>species, set-of-the-sentient-beings, biosphere.  Which
>boundaries are valid, and which should be made transparent
>or removed altogether?  Few can care about everyone and
>everything, and at least some of the boundaries appear to
>be intuitively valid, although the nation-state (the
>province of patriotism) seems to possess one of the
>weaker claims.
>
>-- Gordon

Some Anglo/American leftists said, "_This_ [= 911] is an attack on 
_us_," but it makes more sense to say that the US war on Afghanistan 
& other nations is an attack on us, if we don't allow ourselves to 
get browbeaten into American Patriotism.
-- 
Yoshie

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