[lbo-talk] Definition of nation (was as if on cue)

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I was for a bit the almost mistress of a globe-trotting scientist who stayed at such hotels on the taxpayer's dime. He took me to a couple in Holland, and DC. The striking thing about these hotels is how unspeakably vulgar they are.

Joanna

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From: "Wojtek S" <wsoko52 at gmail.com>
To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
Sent: Thursday, February 3, 2011 7:55:03 AM
Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Definition of nation (was as if on cue)

[WS:] What I meant to say was that taking away collective identity will
reduce humanity to a brave new world.  Nation is but one form of such
identity.

As to whether the erosion of national identity is a good or a bad thing - it
depends what it is replaced with.  The chance are that it will be replaced
with corporate identities and their dreadful authoritarian monocultures -
and that would be a horrible thing.  You can see that when you stay in
5-star hotels (which I am trying to avoid as a plague.) No matter in what
country they are located, they cater to the same dreadful corporate life
style (golf as the utmost form of pass time, the same business attire, the
same routines and assortment of luxury products, and worst of all the
cultivation of the same "everyone is to serve me" attitude.  Each time I
encounter these places I think to myself that when the revolution finally
comes, these places - and the golf courses affiliated with them - will be
turned into agricultural cooperatives in which their current occupants will
learn the virtues of hard labor ;).

Wojtek