[lbo-talk] Patriotism is Relative, Not Absolute

Kelley the-squeeze at pulpculture.org
Sat Aug 9 20:43:34 PDT 2003


At 08:21 PM 8/9/03 -0700, andie nachgeborenen scribbled:


>--- > oh maybe you weren't here earlier when we
>discussed
> > the notion that
> > country refers to something more like culture. that
> > could have it's own
> > problems, of course, especially if one is asserting
> > superiority, but i
> > don't think that's entirely what justin was up to.
> >
> >
>
>Oh, not _entirely_, just _partially_, although this is
>a notion I specifically repudiated? What, do you think
>that if I am patriotic above jazz as an American art
>form that I must think that it is better than, oh, I
>don't know, klezmer music? Indian ragas? Ska? Sheesh,
>Kells, you can do better than that. jks

and you can read better than that, right?

i certainly don't think you believe that US culture is superior, but I do think you believe that liberal enlightenment ideals are superior to, say, feudalistic ideals. that's the only reason I put in the qualifier.

kelley



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