I will tell you. It will ultimately lead, at least to some extent, to the identification of these individuals with their civilizational associations, first. Not necessarily their nation state, a sad thing for so many of them anyway.These identifications may be mainly religious, racial, some combination, anything to give them some pathetic sense of shelter....
Call it a Hobbesian Gimme Shelter phenonenon.
Saturday, February 15, 2014
KEY PASSAGE FROM DK'S CURRENT POST
"...And states, led by the United States, define their international enemies not as other nations or even political parties, but as individuals. That is why drones are becoming our weapon of choice...."
American individualism is a species of anarchism.
It kills off, not really intentionally, leadership, and political order, of any kind, both politically and militarily.
As a result, with the slow temporary death of the nation state, which the America free globalist market system has lead the world in trying to kill off, along with imperial states, and other federal states, there are only relatively weak nation states and empires, and a large number within these of smaller groups of armed, or unarmed, people and individuals, (state and local governments etc.) within an increasingly differentiated sea of disoriented individuals, many of whom now see only individualism as a way forward in the absence of any other paradigm under market capitalism.
American individualism is a species of anarchism.
It kills off, not really intentionally, leadership, and political order, of any kind, both politically and militarily.
As a result, with the slow temporary death of the nation state, which the America free globalist market system has lead the world in trying to kill off, along with imperial states, and other federal states, there are only relatively weak nation states and empires, and a large number within these of smaller groups of armed, or unarmed, people and individuals, (state and local governments etc.) within an increasingly differentiated sea of disoriented individuals, many of whom now see only individualism as a way forward in the absence of any other paradigm under market capitalism.
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