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Beth Purkhiser

... there is really no such thing as a nation in the sense of an ethnocultural group that coincides with a patch of real estate. Unlike features of a landscape like trees and mountains, people have feet. They move to places where the opportunities are best, and they soon invite their friends and relatives to join them. This demographic mixing turns the landscape into a fractal, with minorities inside minorities inside minorities. A government with sovereignty over a territory which claims to embody a nation will in fact fail to embody the interests of many of the individuals living within that territory, while taking a proprietary interest in individuals living in other territories. ~ Steven Pinker - The Better Angels of our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined The problem is, many religious people are *terrified* of a one world government. How truly horrible if we all started viewing ourselves as fellow human beings of planet earth, rather than us and them.

Posted on: Fri, 21 Nov 2014 08:25:28 +0000

... there is really no such thing as a nation in the sense of an - TopicsExpress

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