Tuesday Cultures are important. They went a bit out of focus after WW2, being replaced by ideologies. But they never went away. It was during WW1 that the communists noticed that troops were more inclined to die for their country (merely the physical location of their culture) than their ideology. In the 1930s, and based upon this realisation, National Socialism … [Read more...]
Countries
Saturday The modern understanding of a country is somewhere that is under the sway of a particular government. A closer inspection reveals that this is not what a country really is. A country is a place where the occupants live according to agreed morals (social values) and where traditions and aspirations are in general accord. Only once these foundations are already … [Read more...]