> > "PATRIOTISM, n. 1) The inability to distinguish between the
>> government and one's "country";
>> -- from The American Heretic's Dictionary
>
>Marta Russell wrote:
>> Except I would make a third grouping, the state. Government is
>> really just the bureaucracy of administering. The STATE is what
>> goes to war, hence the dominant agent. The country is the
>> collectivity of people who occupy a place.
>
>War Is the Health of the State
>by Randolph Bourne
>
><http://flag.blackened.net/revolt/hist_texts/warhealthstate1918.html>
>
>-- Shane
>
Yep, I learned this from Randolph, a man whose disability caused editors embaressment to take him out to lunch. He wrote for Harpers, I think but died in poverty at an early age.
marta -- Marta Russell Los Angeles, CA http://www.disweb.org