[Ohioan]

I will just note one thing, in response to your suggestion that the financial community is the root of the betrayal of the very concept of the nation. The initial gamesmanship of financial interests tended to rely on imperial--as opposed to non-national pursuits. It was only as egalitarianism--as in the Jacobins in France--began to poison the academic mind, that the gradual shift from imperial to internationalism gained sway.

But do not want to divert attention from the need to oppose what is now an ongoing attack on the very concept of the nation, into an academic discussion of the causation for that attack. We need to all focus on exploding the rationalizations for the betrayal of heritage.

[Carry_Okie]

It was only as egalitarianism--as in the Jacobins in France--began to poison the academic mind, that the gradual shift from imperial to internationalism gained sway.

Sigh. The people I'm talking about were behind the Jacobins.

I suggest to you reading To Eliminate the Opiate Volume I and Volume II, by Orthodox rabbi Marvin S. Antelman.

We need to all focus on exploding the rationalizations for the betrayal of heritage.

I'll take my own direction, thank you, which is to explode but one such rationalization: "the environment" as a root of regulation, population control, and many of the other counterproductive evils we see.